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SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY
NEW SERIES
VOL.
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LADY GRISELL BAILLIE'S
HOUSEHOLD BOOK
October 1911
LADY GRISELL BAILLIE,
AGED 69.
(From a Portrait at Mellerstain, probably by Maria Verelst.)
AUG 221945
THE
HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF
LADY GRISELL BAILLIE "^
1692-1733
Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by
ROBERT SCOTT-MON CRIEFF, W.S.
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
OF THE CHURCM OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LAnEP-OAV SAIMT»v
EDINBURGH o^^o^'>
Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable
for the Scottish History Society
1911
^'T^^-
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION, .
Extracts from Household Books —
Sundry Disbursements,
Housekeeping, .
Servants, .
Household Furniture,
Clothing, .
Business Charges,
Horsekeeping, .
Estate Management,
Expenses of Garden,
Doctors and Surgeons,
Small Payments,
Brothers' and Sisters' Accounts,
Expenses of Mrs. Baillie's Funeral,
Sketch of Life of Robert Baillie, .
Memoranda and Directions to Servants,
Bills of Fare, .....
Note of Supplies consumed at Mellerstain,
Expenses of a Visit to Bath,
PAGE
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61
117
164
188
218
225
236
251
255
257
261
267
269
27S
281
304
306
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PACE
Expenses of Foreign Tour, ...... 309
Memoranda as to Foreign Travel, ..... 384-
APPENDICES—
I. State showing articles mentioned in accounts
with prices then and now,
n. Statement as to Servants' Wages,
III. Note of Fees in connection with Education,
IV. Tables of Money and Measures,
V. Note as to Salary and Wages,
VI. Genealogical Table, .....
GLOSSARY, .
INDEX, .
411
418
420
421
428
430
431
433
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Lady Grisell Baillie, age 69, . . . .
From a Portrait at Mellerstain, probably by Maria Verelst.
Frontispiece
Robert Baillie of Jerviswood,
. To face page xi
Rachel Johnston, wife of Robert Baillie of Jervis-
wood, , • . . . • t}
From a Portrait by John Scougall at Mellerstain.
George Baillie of Jerviswood and his Daughter
vtRISELL, * • • • • . y^
From, a Portrait at Mellerstain.
Book Plate of George Baillie of Jerviswood, . „
Lady Murray, aged 33, . . . • )>
From a Portrait at Mellerstain by Maria Verelst.
Lady Binning, aged 29, . . . • )>
From a Portrait at Mellerstain by Maria Verelst.
Lord Binning, . . . , • ,>
From a Portrait at Mellerstain.
'Grisie' and 'Rachie' Baillie, aged 6 and 2
respectively, . . . . • }}
From, a Picture at Mellerstain by John Scougall.
Sampler at Mellerstain, worked under the Direc-
tions OF Miss Menzies. The animals are copied
from a book which belonged to Miss Menzies, and
is still at Mellerstain, , . , • ,>
The Right Hon. Patrick Hume, Earl of March-
MONT, .......
From a Portrait at Mellerstain.
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XIX
XXVI
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xlv
xJvii
ixxix
INTRODUCTION
This volume forms one of a series of publications issued
by the Scottish History Society dealing with household
expenditure during the seventeenth and eighteenth cen-
turies, and goes far to fill the hiatus in years between the
Foulis Book ^ and the Ochtertyre Book.^ For this reason
alone it would serve a useful purpose, but considerably
more than this is claimed for it. In the first place, it deals
with a much wider range of subject-matter than is usually
included in what are termed ' House Books,' taking these
words in their ordinary acceptation. To a certain extent,
therefore, its title is inadequate. In the second place,
owing to the various changes of residence of the family
with which it deals, it affords an opportunity of contrasting
the expenses of living in the country with those of living
in a close in the High Street of Edinburgh, and again of
comparing these with the expenses of living in London,
in Bath, and on the Continent. In the third place, it
gives us memoranda as to the duties of servants, as to the
arrangement of the dinner-table, as to travelling, and as
to many other matters of interest. And lastly, it brings
us indirectly into touch with a remarkably interesting
group of people, whether viewed socially, politically, or
intellectually, who were well known in their day and
generation, and whose history it is a pleasure to study.
The Baillies of Jerviswood were cadets of the Baillies
^ The Account Book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston, 1671-1707.
- Ochtertyre House Booke of Accomps, 1737-1739.
X HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
of St. John's Kirk, who in their turn were cadets of the
BailHes of Lamington, ' the original BaHiols,' according to
Lord Foimtainhall. The first Baillie of Jerviswood was
George BailHe, second son of BaiUie of St. John's Kirk,^
and grandfather of Lady Grisell's husband. As was then
common, he entered into trade, duly compeared before
Thomas Inglis, Dean of Guild of the City of Edinburgh,
and others, on 8th September 1613, ' sufficientlie armit
with ane furnisht hagbut,' and was sworn in as a ' Mer-
chant Burgess ' of the city. What he traded in it is
impossible to say, but he at least owned a share in a
ship to which he had succeeded through his first wife
Christian Vorie.^ This lady, who was the illegitimate ^
daughter of John Vorie in Balbaird, died without issue
on 7th October 1628. George Baillie throve, became a
town councillor* in 1631, purchased in 1636 the lands
of Jerviswood in Lanarkshire from the family of
Livingston, and in 1643 the estate of Mellerstain in
Berwickshire from Andrew Edmonston of Ednem. The
titles to these properties, along with his ' best clothes '
and his ' silver and goldsmyth work,' were ' all totallie
burnt ' in August 1645, ' the tyme of that Lament-
able fyre that was then in Edinburgh,' they being
contained in ' ane trunk and ane kist ' in the house of
James Baillie, INIerchant Burgess of Edinburgh, which was
' totallie burnt ' (Act of Parliament, 1647).
It was probably before 1636 that he had made his
second marriage — that \\ith Margaret Johnston, daughter
of James Johnston, Merchant Burgess of Edinburgh,
' Reg. Mag. Sig., 14th June 1647.
- Edinbtirgh Comviissariot Testaments, 24th December 1623.
' Letters of legitimisation granted to Christian Vorie, natural daughter of the
late John Vorie in Balbaird, spouse of George Baillie, Merchant Burgess of
Edinburgh. — Reg. Mag. Sig., 7th July 1625.
* Reg. Mag. Sig., 25th March 1631.
ROBERT BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD.
INTRODUCTION xi
and sister of Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston,
by whom he had several children, namely : —
1. John Baillie, who predeceased him.
2. Robert Baillie, who succeeded him.
3. Archibald Baillie.
4. Captain George Baillie of Mannerhall.
5. Captain James Baillie of the City Guard of Edinburgh.
6. Christian Baillie.
7. Elizabeth Baillie,^ was married to Mr. James Kirkton,
-at one time minister of Merton, afterwards of the Tolbooth,
Edinburgh, 31st December 1657 {Edinburgh Register of
Marriages).
8. Rachel Baillie, was married first to Mr. Andrew Gray,
one of the ministers of Glasgow ; second, to Mr. George
Hutcheson, at one time minister in Edinburgh, afterwards
in Irvine.
George Baillie probably died early in 1646, for the
' Account of the Annual Rents belonging to the Children
-of George Baillie ' begins in March of that year. He was
succeeded by his eldest surviving son Robert. A sketch
of the life of this remarkable man will be found on p. 269.
The original is not in the handwriting of Lady Grisell,
but it is endorsed by her ' My father-in-law.' As will
be seen from this sketch, Robert Baillie first came into
the clutches of the law in 1676, tlirough rescuing his
brother-in-law, the Rev. James Kirkton, from the hands
of Captain Carstairs. The story is a curious one, and will
be found fully set forth in volume forty-four of the Pro-
ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. The
result of the trial was that Baillie was fined £500 sterling,^
1 This lady's name is erroneously given in Scott's Fasit Ecclesia as ' Grisell.'
Both Kirkton and Hutcheson suffered for their principles, the latter on one
occasion being fined half a year's stipend for not keeping the Anniversary of
the Restoration.
■^ This fine, or at least a considerable part of it, was subsequently remitted by
the Earl of Lauderdale.
xii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
and incarcerated in the Edinburgh Tolbooth. It was
during his confinement at this time that his son George
Baillie first made the acquaintance of his future wife, then
Grisell Hume, aged twelve, the eldest daughter of Sir
Patrick Hume, afterwards Earl of Marchmont. Sir
Patrick was anxious to communicate with Jerviswood, ta
whom he was deeply attached, and in order to avoid
suspicion sent his little daughter from Redbraes, his
country seat, to execute this dangerous and delicate com-
mission. She succeeded so well ' that from that time
her hardships began, from the confidence was put in her
and the activity she naturally had far beyond her age in
executing whatever she was intrusted with.'
When Robert Baillie was arrested in 1683 for high
treason, he was residing in London, and was accordingly
first confined in the Tower. As his condemnation bv an
English court would only have entailed forfeiture of his
movable estate, it was resolved to send him and his fellow-
countrymen in misfortune to Scotland, where their heritable
estates could also be confiscated. The prisoners were
accordingly shipped north, and we have the following
pathetic note as to her husband's arrest and journey to
Scotland in the handwriting of Mrs. Baillie. It is con-
tained in a small commonplace-book of her husband's,
and has for convenience been divided into sentences.
We war Led in presen by en order from his Majest, writer of
it S"" Lyen Jenkins, detted 27 of Joun 1683.
Last OcV 1683.
We cam from London by the Kings yach called the Kettchen
yach, on Capten Croo our skipcr and on scrgcn histinns, 12
sogers, all of the Kings owen foot gard. We was sheped open
the Last of Ocf^ and had a very dengerowes Jarny, and cam
to Lcth opon 14 day of Novb'', when 11 gcntellmen was garded
w' horse and foott, the prcseners being in coshs ontill they
cam to the Netherbow ell, and then Mager Whett cam from
the Chansler and traserer and commanded them to go on foot-
RACHEL JOHNSTON
WIFE OF ROBERT BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD
{From a Portrait by Joint Scougall at Mellentain. )
INTRODUCTION xiii
and so they did, garded w* hors and foot, to the ToUboth,
where thay ar keeped geloss. The end of Des*" we got in twes
wt S*' Will petterson and pettrick Menzies, Clark to the Counscll.
Then in Jan'" I got in tow days wt a keeper, then being stoped
agen in f eb"^ I got in ones a day or more wt on of the good men.
We got opon dors preson dors upon 18 Aprell 1684. Thay war
med clos presoner in Jully 24 opon a thursday, and w*in 8 dayes
my husband fell very sik and was put clos in a rume alone and
keeped ther un'ell he was allmost ded and opon the 14 Agust
my sister was Let in to him and 3 dayes after I myself was
Lett in and stayed 18 dayes w* him, and we was taken from
him when non wold have toght he could heve Lived en houre
and he stayed Loked op tell the six of novbir all a Lone.
The trial and its result are too well known to require
more than a passing notice here. Jerviswood, who had
been desperately ill in prison, Avas carried to court in his
' night gown,' ^ and driven to execution a few hours after
sentence had been pronounced. Wodrow reports that
he said to his son George, who had been recalled from his
studies abroad, ' If ye have a strong heart ye may go and
see me nagled ; but if ye have not a heart for it ye may
stay away.' From what Lady Murray says in her Memoirs
he appears to have gone, but whether he remained with
his aunt Mrs. Graden to see the body ' cut in coupons and
oyled and tarred ' is nowhere mentioned. Lady Murray,
however, states that his mother and aunts said ' that it
ever after gave that grave, silent, thoughtful turn to his
temper which before that time was not natural to him.'
It also gave him what was by no means so common at
that period, namely, feelings of compassion towards his
political opponents when the wheel of fortune placed some
of them in the same position in which his father had been.
After the ' '15,' when he was a Lord of the Treasury, and
at a time when to speak his mind might easily have
damaged his position, he publicly ' declared himself for
^ See p. Ixxi.
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mercy to the poor unhappy sufferers by the rebellion,'
and began a long Parliamentary speech ' by sapng that
he had been bred in the School of affliction which had
instructed him in both the reasonableness and necessity
of showing mercy to others in the like circumstances.'
As his accounts show, he did more than talk, for there are
several entries of payments made to the unfortunate
prisoners taken at Preston. ' To the Laird of Wedder-
burn when in Prison, £5 ' ; 'To James Hume of Aiton My
Ld Humes brother, £l. Is. 6d ' ; 'To Mrs. Hume White-
field, £l, Is. 6d.,' wife of Hume of WTiitefield, and to others
— thus confirming Lady Murray's statement as to his
helping ' the wives, sisters, and other relations and friends
of the poor prisoners.' That Lord Kenmore's body was
handed to his relatives instead of to the surgeons for
dissection was entirely owing to his intervention and
foresight.
His conduct to these unfortunates is made even more
remarkable by the fact ' that they plundered several
gentlemen's country seats (particularly the houses of Sir
John Pringle of Stitchell and Mr. Baillie of Jerviswood)
carry 'd away what peuther they could get to melt down
for Bullets, destroyed their corn, etc' ^
Robert Baillie cannot have been much over fifty, ^ if so
old, at the time of his death. Lord Fountainhall in his
Chronological Notes describes him as being a ' huffy proud
man * who ' huffed a little that he should be esteemed
guilty of any design against the life of the King or his
brother whereof he purged himself as he hoped for mercy.'
He was survived by his widow and by the following
' TAe History of the Rebellion raised against King George, etc. (1715), by
Peter Rae, 17 18.
2 His father's first wife died on 7th October 1628, and as he was the second
son of his father's second marriage, he cannot have been older than fifty-three,
and was probably a little younger.
INTRODUCTION xv
children, who were all born at Jerviswood Tower, which
he made his residence : —
George, who succeeded him, born 16th March 1664.
Archibald, born 15th April 1665.
Robert, born 4th July 1666.
William, born 24th January 1669.
Rachel, born 3rd April 1671, married Dundas of Breast-
milne, Linlithgowshire.
James, born 9th June 1673.
John, born 14th March 1675, died 1717. His funeral
cost £11, 16s. 6d. (see p. 59).
Helen, born July 1676, married John Hay, Writer in
Edinburgh, died in 1717.
Elizabeth, born 25th September 1677, married Mr.
Robert Weems of Graingemuir, made Collector at Alloa
March 1717.
Robert Baillie's execution took place on 24th December
1684, and while his head was exhibited on the Netherbow
Port of the city of Edinburgh, his quarters were exposed
on the Tolbooths of Jedburgh, Lanark, Ayr, and Glasgow.
The quarter which was sent to Lanark Tolbooth, not a
mile from liis own house of Jerviswood, remained but a
short time in its position, for ' a band of young men,
headed by a certain yeoman named William Leishman,
came and stole it away for burial.' ^ This Leishman's son
and namesake was afterwards sent to college by the
Jerviswood family out of gratitude for this service, and
eventually became Principal Leishman of Glasgow Uni-
versity.
The execution of Robert Baillie made it evident to his
old friend Sir Patrick Hume that if he wished to preserve
his life he had better get out of Scotland as soon as possible.
The story of Sir Patrick's concealment and subsequent
^ A Son of Knox, and other Studies^ hy]. F. Leishman, 1909.
xviii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
a mild gamble, as the numerous entries in the London
accounts show.
On his return to Scotland Baillie found himself in a
very different position from that in which he had been
when he fled the country. The Whigs and Presbyterians
were all-powerful. His father and his grandfather — Lord
Wariston — were regarded as martyrs for the cause ; his
uncle James Johnston had been appointed Secretary of
State for Scotland ; and his first cousin once removed,
IMr. Gilbert Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, was
now King William's chaplain. It is not surprising, there-
fore, that he was at once elected one of the four members
returned by the county of Berwick to the Convention of
Estates ; that he was appointed a Commissioner of Supply
for that county and also for Lanarkshire ; that his estates
were restored to him; and that he was made Receiver-
General of Scotland, a post which brought him in £300
a year, a good salary for those days. His prospects
were now such as to entitle him to ask for the hand
of Grisell Hume from her father, who in December 1690
had been created Lord Polwarth. The young people
had always been deeply attached, and they were married
at Redbraes, the seat of the Humes, on 17th September
1691. It was an ideal union. ' They never had the
shadow of a quarrel or misunderstanding or dryness
betwixt them, not for a moment.' ' He never went abroad
but she went to the window to look after him ; and so she
did that very day he fell ill the last time he was abroad,
never taking her eyes from him as long as he was in sight.'
It is from about a year after the date of the marriage
that the accounts begin to be kept, but before referring
to them it is necessary for their proper appreciation to
say a few words regarding George Baillie's position,
political and social.
It has been already stated, that Baillie sat in Parliament
GEORGE BAILLIE OF JERVISWOOD AND HIS
DAUGHTER GRISELL.
(From a Portrait at Meller stain.')
INTRODUCTION xix
as one of the members for Berwickshire, of course as a
Whig ; but he was by no means the sort of man to vote
bhndly for the ' Court Party,' however much that might be
to his interest. When, therefore, questions arose in Parha-
ment regarding the affairs of the unfortunate ' Company
trading to Africa and the Indies,' better known as the Darien
Company, in which he held £1000 of stock, and of which
he was a director, he was one of those who, deeply resent-
ing the interference of England, joined the new ' Country
Party ' which was then formed.^ Of this party Baillie
was one of the leaders, and ' gained a great reputation
by standing so stiffly by the interests of his country.' ^
So much so, that when in 1703, a year after the accession
of Anne, a new Parliament was called, Baillie was returned
as member for the shires of both Berwick and Lanark.
Electing to sit for the latter, he continued to represent this
constituency until his retirement in 1725. The Sessions
that followed were most momentous ones, embracing the
long struggle that preceded the passing of the Treaty of
Union, but it is unnecessary here to trace the prominent
parts played by the ' Country Party ' and subsequently
by the ' Squadrone Volante ' in that fight, as they are
well known. Baillie was in the forefront of the battle.
He was one of the three representatives sent by the
' Country Party ' to set their views before Queen Anne,
was made Lord Treasurer Depute in the short-lived
Tweeddale Administration and a member of the Privy
Council, and, in short, was ' by far the most significant
man ' of the ' Squadrone Volante,' ' to whom he was a
kind of dictator.' ^ The position occupied by Baillie at
this time is well shown in the Jerviswood Correspondence,
where we read the private views of the three leaders of
^ George Ridpath's Accotoit of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Scotland^
1703.
2 Lockhart Papers. 3 j^j^^
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the ' Squadrone Volante,' viz. of Secretary Johnston,
that ' shrewd cunning fellow ' ; of the Earl of Roxburgh,
' the best accomplished young man of quality in Europe ' ;
and of Baillie of Jerviswood, ' the morose, proud and
severe, but of a profound solid judgment.' ^ We see how,
step by step, they were driven to the conclusion that the
only way to ensure the Hanoverian Succession, the Presby-
terian form of worship, and equal trading rights with
England was by an absolute union with her ; they had no
love for union in itself, seeing clearly what it entailed ;
but it seemed to them to be the least of the many evils
that hovered over Scotland. The ' Squadrone Volante *
has been accused of venality ; but these letters make it
clear that, while in the manner of the time the leaders
had a keen eye to their own interests, and hoped to be
eventually rewarded for the course they adopted, still in
making up their minds to that course they conscientiously
considered, in the first instance, the interests of their
country.
That the Treaty of Union could not have been passed
without the help of the ' Squadrone Volante ' was fully
recognised ; and it was therefore not unnatural that Baillie
should be one of the selected members who sat for Scot-
land in the fkst Union Parliament, and that he should
be rewarded for his services by being appointed one
of the Commissioners of Trade with a salary of £1000
per annum. The duties of this post he was eminently
capable of discharging, as he had been a member of the
important Council of Trade, which before the Union had
reported on the exports and imports of Scotland.
The first elected United Parliament met in November
1708, and in this Baillie sat, as formerly, for the county
of Lanark. Then followed the Queen's quarrel with the
' Lockhart Papers.
INTRODUCTION xxi
IMarlboroughs, the ousting of Her Majesty's Whig ad-
visers, the election of 1710, with the return to Parha-
ment of a large Tory majority. Baillie, however, retained
his seat, and in connection with his so doing his daughter
writes : ' As he never liked making court to any minister
when there was anything he thought proper for him
to represent he always had a private audience of
the Queen, who shewed so great a personal favour for
him, that, on the change of her ministry in the end of her
reign, she kept him in office a year after the rest of his
party were turned out, and when they prevailed to have
him removed, they pressed her to give some orders they
thought necessary to hinder him of his election, which
she absolutely refused.'
If Scotland had good reason to object to the treatment
it had received at the hands of a Whig Government, it had
still more reason to resent what was meted out to it by
the now victorious Tory party. Both parties in Scotland
were exasperated by one or more of the measures passed
by Parliament, and even amongst the staunchest Whigs
there was a feeling that the Union had been a failure and
should be repealed. Indeed there was made by the
Scottish members a movement in this direction, in which
Baillie to a qualified extent joined.^ The question even
got the length of being raised in the Lords, but it was
unsuccessful and, as it was not thought advisable to bring
it forward in the Commons, it accordingly fizzled out.
This result was in no ways diie to the want of Parliamentary
sympathy for the Scottish Jacobite party, who had always
been opposed to the Union, for the Tories made little or
no concealment of their intention to attempt the restora-
tion of the Stuarts upon Anne's death. So fully was this
recognised by the Whigs, that, resolving to resist to the
^ Lockhart Papers.
xxii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
death, they prepared themselves for civil war. Societies were
formed of those favouring the Hanoverian Succession, and
meetings were held to arrange for organised resistance
and for the purchase of arms. That Baillie took his share
in these warlike preparations is shown by the following
entries in his accounts : —
1714. 15 May For a gun and 30 swords £4 and for
packing 4s. 6d. . . .£446
18 Sept. For 29 guns and Bagginets , 18 4 lyV
For a barrill powder weighe 7h
stone . . . . .368
One cannot help wondering if these arms fell into the
hands of the Highlanders when they looted Mellerstain
in the ' '15.'
Mercifully for the peace of the country, Queen Anne's
sudden death on 1st August 1714 threw out the calcula-
tions of the Jacobites, and before they had time to rally
George had been proclaimed king and had landed in
England.
On his arrival there naturally ensued a complete
change in Government, the Whigs once again being
all-powerful.i Of Baillie's position at this period Lady
Murray writes: 'Upon the accession of King George
the First he was made one of the Lords of the Admir-
alty,- and soon after one of the Lords of the Treasury,^
without his ever soliciting or asking for either of them;
and had no thought nor expectation of being in the
Treasury when the Earl of Stanhope, then at the head of
it, sent him orders to come and take his place at the
Board. There he continued till at his own earnest desire
he laid down in the year 1725 against the opinion and
' 'The chief men in place are the Speaker, Sir Richard Onslow, Mr.
Boscawen, Mr. Aislaby, Mr. Smith, Mr. Lechmere, Mr. Bayley, Mr. Putteney,
Mr. Stanhope.'— (?« i/ie State of Party at the Accession of George /., by Mr.
Wort ley.
■ Salary ^looo per annum. 3 Salary ;^l6oo per annum.
INTRODUCTION xxiii
entreaties of all his friends, and even the King desired him
to continue and was a year before he accepted his demis-
sion.' ^ If Lady Mmray is correct in the latter part of
this statement, Baillie was more fortunate than the other
members of his party, who in 1725 were all turned out of
their posts by Walpole for not being sufficiently sub-
servient to the English view of Scottish polic3^ Be that
as it may, he ceased after the year 1725 to take a part
in public affairs, and devoted himself to the education
of his grandchildren, and to ' constant meditation, con-
templation and prayer.' He died at Oxford on 6th August
1738, at the age of seventy-five, and was buried at Meller-
stain in the private burial-ground prepared by himself^
' At one and the same time he was a most zealous patriot,
a very able statesman, and a most perfect Christian.
His courage was undaunted and his patience immovable ;
his piety unfeigned and his truth exact to the greatest
precision.' ^
In addition to his political work, Baillie, as was but
natural, took a deep interest in the affairs of the Church
of Scotland. He was chosen as representative elder to
the General Assembly for the parish of Earlston, in which
Mellerstain lies, and this position he held for many
years, attending the Assembly with characteristic regu-
larity. "When resident in Edinburgh he had a loft
in that part of St. Giles known as the Tolbooth, for
which he paid £l, 10s. a year, and when in England
he ' continued steadily in his own Church and princi-
ples,' having a pew in King's Street Chapel, London,
' He retired on a pension of ;i{^i6oo per annum. In regard to this, Lady
MaryWortley Montagu, writing to her sister the Countess of Marin 1726, says,.
* Mr. Baily you know is dismissed the Treasury and consoled with a pensioa
of equal value.'
- An Historical Character of the Hon. George Baillie^ by C. Cheyne
M.D. , F.R.S., appended to Lady Murray's Memoirs.
xxiv HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
for which he paid 9s. a quarter. He also contributed
generously to the building funds of Presbyterian Churches
both in England and Ireland. Not that he adhered to
his own Church with ' rigidness and narrowness of soul,'
for his Accounts show that when abroad his charities
extended to priests and nuns and monks ; and Lady
Murray narrates how ' two of the poor Episcopal Clergy
in Scotland came to ask charity for themselves and their
brethi'en without the expectation of seeing him. He
received them kindly, kept them to dinner with him,
contributed to their necessities, and shewed great dis-
pleasure at his servants for not having taken proper care
of their horses, nor bringing them so readily as they would
have done to those from whom they expected a reward.'
It must not, however, be imagined that Baillie was
entirely taken up with politics and religion. He had his
* hunting mares,' which we learn from the Accounts were
specially fed with beans, and he went on hawking expedi-
tions. He evidently could also take a hand in a carouse,
for on 4th June 1706, the Earl of Haddington writing to
the Earl of Mar says : ' Drinking indeed succeeds pretty
well, thanks to my Lord Roths, Hindfoord, Anster, George
Baillie, James Bruce and myself, who as long as the
Assembly lasted lived as discreet a life as you could
wish.' ^ When the family went to stay in London in
1715, Lady Grisell and he took part with their daughters
in the ' ball, masquerades, parties by water and such
like,' ' neither choosing to deprive us of them nor let us
go alone . . . and they generally were calculated at times
most convenient for my father.' Many are the references
in the Accounts to these parties.
There is no doubt, however, that such diversions were
* not quite suitable to his own temper,' and that his chief
* YxaA^x^i Memorials of the Earls of Haddington. 2 vols, 1889. 4to.
INTRODUCTION xxv
pleasure lay in his books and in retirement with them.
The Accounts show that Baillie constantly bought books.
He purchased from Mosman in the Luckenbooths, from
Johnston, Knox and Vallance ; he bought at auctions,
and had heavy accounts with Andrew Bell, Bookseller,
London. One of the earliest entries after his marriage is
for the erection in his first house in Warriston Close of
five double presses for books at a cost of £72 Scots or £G
sterling ; and when he finally left Edinburgh for Meller-
stain in 1708 he took with him four cartloads of books.
He was not contented with reading himself, but must needs
encourage reading amongst his dependants. He saw to
it that they all had Bibles ; and on one occasion we find
him spending £3, 10s. sterling ' for books for the tenants
and servants,' and on another, 2s. for a ' Thomas a Kempis
to the servants.' It is to be regretted that the Accounts
only give the names of a few of the volumes purchased,
such as : ' Jaillots Maps,' ^ £12, 10s. stg. ; ' Mazerays
History,' 2 3 vols., £6, 13s. 4d. stg. ; ' Foster's Book,'
6s. 8d. stg. ; ' Defoe's Book in defence of the Union,'
2s. 6d. (this of course purchased in 1707) ; ' Naphtah,'
covenanting Records, by Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees ;
' Johnston, Engraver, for his book of Maps, £2, 2s. ' ; 'a
little Divinity Book,' Is. Sd. ; ' Atalantis ' by Mrs. Manley,
which was one of the scandalous works lent out by Allan
Ramsay in 1726 from the first circulating library in the
kingdom.
Even when travelling on the Continent books were pur-
chased, and a box was sent home containing, along with
several books of prints, maps and music, such works as
Telimon's History, Don Quixote, Bocaccio, Le Fortunate
Neapolinano (in two volumes), Delices de la Holland,
' Bernard Antoine Jaillot, a well-known map-maker in the early eighteenth
century.
2 Probably Histoire de France, published 1643 to 1651. Folio.
xxvi HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Delices d' Italy, History of the Painters, Salvini's Works,
Monsignr della Casa's Works, Cato in Italian (unbound)^
Terense's Plays in Italian, Recueil de Pensees (in five
volumes), Retratto di Venezzia, Confession of Augsburg,
Dieu present par tout, etc.
The Mellerstain library contains to this day many
hundreds of books with his bookplate carefully pasted in.
Baillie was also a patron of the Arts. He had ' wax
pictures ' done of his son and mother, presumably after
their deaths, for which he pays £l, 14s. 4d. stg. and £3, 4s.
stg. respectively. Then he purchased many pictures from.
John Scugald, whose name is associated with the first
picture gallery in Europe, this artist having added an
upper story to his house in Advocates' Close, Edinburgh,
and fitted it up for the purpose of an exhibition.^
The prices paid strike one as small, even bearing in
mind the remuneration of services at that time. For
instance : ' To Scugald for 2 pictures and frames,
£74 8s. ' Scots (£6, 4s. stg.). ' Scuglad for pictures, £48 '
Scots (£4). ' Scugald balance, £96 ' Scots (£8 stg.).
'1705 Deer. To John Scugald painter in full of all
accounts, £84 Scots ' (£7 stg.). The most curious entry,
however, in connection with this artist is the following
in 1706: 'For drawing Grisies peticoat by Skugald,' 5s.
stg. Does this mean that he turned his artistic talents to
designing clothes or grounding patterns for embroidery ?
In 1710 Sir John Medina painted Baillie, his wife, and
the ' two bairens's pictures ' for £20 stg.,^ and in 1711
* Old and New Edinburgh, by James Grant, ' For some years after the
Revolution he was the only painter in Scotland, and had a very great run of
business. This brought him into a hasty and incorrect manner.'— Pinkerton.
- Induced by the promise of customers to venture from London, the Spaniard
Juan Bautista Medina had come to the unknown North, bringing with him in
a smack to Leith an ample supply of canvases containing bodies and postures,
male and female, ready painted, to which the heads of his future clients were
to be affixed. — Graham's Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century.
He was knighted in 1707, before the Union, by the Duke of Queensberry.
BOOK PLATE OF GEORGE BAILLIE
OF JERVISWOOD.
INTRODUCTION xxvii
Hay did several pictures of Jerviswood as presents for
various friends at the rate of £1, 10s. stg. each, and 10s.
for the frame.
The most expensive work got is a portrait from William
Aikman,^ but of which member of the family is not stated.
1717 Mr. Aickman in pairt for picturs . . £21 0 O
In full payd for the picturs at 5 guinys sitting
and 5£ coppys . . , . . 31 0 0
£52 stg.
When at Florence in 1733, Ladj^ Grisell has portraits
of her husband, her daughter Grisie, and her two grand-
daughters, Grisie and Helen, painted by Mr. Martin at a
cost of eleven guineas, and in Bologne a ' pictor of the
Autom ' is purchased for £2. Cases are bought for these
works of art, the conveyance of which must have added
considerably to the trouble of their homeward journey.
George Baillie died on 6th August 1738 and was
survived by his widow and by two daughters — Grisell,
born at Redbraes on 26th October 1692, and Rachel,
born in Warriston's Land on 23rd February 1696.
He was predeceased by his only son Robert, who
was born on 23rd February 1694 and died on 28th
February 1696. His daughter Grisell was married on
16th August 1710 to ' Mr. Alexander Murray, the son
and heir of Sir David Murray of Stanhope, Baronet, by
the Lady Anne Bruce, daughter of Alexander, Earl of
Kincardine.' ^ Grisell's father, who 'was the most just and
sagacious observer of mankind that was possible,' was
opposed to the marriage, but overcome by his daughter's
' ' William Aikman (laird of Cairney) had been at his easel since 1 7 12 in his
High Street Close, a laird by rank, a good painter by craft, . . . but ten years
were enough to weary Aikman of a poor business, and customers that grudged
to be immortalised at ;^io for a painted yard of canvas, "forbye a frame," and
he quitted Edinburgh . . . and went to London.' — Graham's Social Life of
Scot/and in the Eighteenth Century.
~ Appendix V. to Lady Murray's Memoirs.
xxviii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
tears, reluctantly gave his consent. The union turned out
a most unfortunate one, for INIr. Murray ' under a pleasing
exterior ' possessed ' a dark, moody and ferocious temper '
amounting almost to insanity, which ' made him the help-
less victim of the most groundless suspicions.' This curious
temper showed itself on the very first day after their
marriage, and although he appears to have lived with
his wife in his father-in-law's house for some five months,
it was at length found necessary to obtain from the Court
a Decree of Separation, which was pronounced on 5th
IMarch 1714. With all his unreasoning jealousy, which
made life with him impossible and dangerous, Mr. INIurray
seems to have been reallv attached to his wife, for it is
told that at the time when she was having her portrait
painted in London, a gentleman, who afterwards was dis-
covered to be her husband, came frequently to the artist's
studio, where he ' Avould stand for an hour with his arms
folded gazing at her likeness.'
Mrs. Murray, afterwards Lady Murray, was for many
years a great friend of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, until
the latter ' thought fit to exercise her wicked wit in an
infamous ballad ; which of course she loudly disclaimed
all knowledge of, but of which her own letters to her sister
Lady Mar plainly enough betray her to have been the
writer.'^
Lady IMurray was famous both in London and Edin-
burgh for her singing. Gay refers to her in his lines to
Pope as ' the sweet-tongued Murray,' and afterwards in
her flat in the Parliament Square of Edinburgh ' she was
still accustomed to sing the native airs and ballads of her
own country with a delicacy and pathos quite peculiar
to herself,' ^ and to draw tears from the eyes of her
audience.
' Appendix V., Lady Murray's Memoirs.
^ Appendix to Lady Murray's Memoirs.
tj
\
LADY MURRAY,
AGED 33.
(From a Portrait at Mtller stain by Maria Verelst.)
INTRODUCTION xxix
Lady INIurray's younger sister Rachel was married at
Edinburgh, on 3rd September 1717, to Charles, Lord
Binning, the eldest son of the Earl of Haddington. This
marriage was as happy as Lady Murray's was the reverse.
Lord Binning ^ seems in very truth to have become one of
the family, and his early death from consumption, at
Naples, on 27th December 1732, was deeply felt both by
Lady Grisell and her husband. ' His heart, etc., was
buried in St. Corrolas Church Yeard and his corps sent
home to Tiningham.' ^ It was to his father-in-law that
Lord Binning on his deathbed confided the education of
his children. Lord Binning was survived bv : —
Grisell Hamilton, born 6th April 1719.
Thomas Hamilton, born 23rd October 1720, who suc-
ceeded his grandfather Lord Haddington.
George Hamilton, born 24th June 1723, who assumed
the surname of Baillie and succeeded to the Baillie estates.
His descendants eventually succeeded to the Earldom of
Haddington.
Charles James Hamilton, born 8th October 1727.
Rachel Hamilton, born 3rd Januarv 1729.
He was predeceased by Helen, born 8th October 1724 ;
Charles, born 6th October 1725 ; and John, born 22nd
October 1726.^
On Mr. BaiHie's death his estate passed by destination
to his widow in liferent, then to his elder daughter and
her issue, whom failing, to his younger daughter and her
second son. Thus, as Lady Murray had no children,
Lady Binning's second son, George, succeeded to the
^ Lord Binning, like his father, was a versifier of considerable skill. One of
his songs, ' Ungrateful Nanny,' was published in the Gentleman^ Magazine.
" Note by Lady Grisell.
* The above names and dates are taken from a Memorandum in Lady
Grisell's handwriting, but judging from the Accounts there must have been
another child of the marriage born in 1718, for in that year Lady Grisell
spends a considerable sum of money for ' my Rachels cloaths to her child.'
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properties of Jerviswood, Mellerstain, etc., assuming the
name of Baillie. Through the failure of the male line
of Thomas, Lady Binning' s eldest son, the succession to
the Earldom of Haddington opened to the descendants
of her second son George. The Haddington and Baillie
estates are thus now merged in the same proprietor, and
Mellerstain is still the residence of George Baillie' s descend-
ants. Nothing now remains of the ' Old melancholick
hous that had had great buildings about it,' ^ purchased
by the first George Baillie of Jerviswood in 1643, and of
the Mellerstain known to Lady Grisell only the wings are
left. Although the old tower which she used to have
repaired so regularly has been replaced by the present
Adam's buildings, her own voluminous Memoranda and
Account Books have been carefully preserved, and it is
to her descendant, Lord Binning, the present occupant
of Mellerstain, that the thanks of the Scottish History
Society are due for his kindness in placing at its disposal
these most interesting and valuable records of a bj'^gone
age and of an exceptional personality.
So many sketches of Lady Grisell's life have been pub-
lished, dealing with her romantic history, her poetic talents,
and her charming personality that nothing further need
be said here upon these points. Her extraordinary business
capacity has also been the subject of much comment, but
as it is the side of her character which is most prominently
brought into notice in this volume, a few words in regard
to it may be pardoned.
From the time Lady Grisell, as a mere child, had proved
her capacity through her skill in gaining communication
^ 'Nov. lo, 1659. . . . We cam be Eccles and Stichell, and at lenth cam to
Mellerstane, wher we met with Jerviswood, who took us in and we took a
drink with him. It is ane old melancholick hous that had had great buildings
about it. He cam with us to Lauder at night.' — Diary of Andrew Hay of
Craignethan.
INTRODUCTION xxxi
Avith Mr. Robert Baillie, she became the mainstay of her
father's house. She went with her mother to London
after her father's estates were forfeited in order to solicit
an allowance for the support of the family ; she came
back from Holland by herself and brought over her younger
sister Julian to Utrecht — and a wretched journey it was ;
at Utrecht she sat up two nights a week ' to do the business
that was necessary for the household ' ; after her marriage
she returned to her father's house, on one occasion for
many weeks, and worked day and night at putting his
accounts in order ; when her brother was abroad she
managed his affairs, and seems also to have helped many
of her friends as well. It is, therefore, little to be wondered
at that her husband trusted her with the entire administra-
tion of his finances ' without scarce asking a question
about them, except sometimes to say to her, "Is mj^ debt
paid yet ? " though often did she apply to him for direc-
tion and advice.' ' In her family her attention and
economy reached to the smallest things ; and though this
was her practice from her youth there never appeared in
her the least air of narrowness ; and so far was she from
avarice, the common vice of the age, that often has my
father said to her " I never saw the like of you, goodwife,
the older you grow, you grow the more extravagant ;
but do as you please provided I be in no debt.' So writes
Lady Murray, and an examination of the Accounts fully
bears out her statement, showing as it does the most
careful supervision, and also at times what must have
struck her husband as dangerous extravagance. For
instance, when the family went to London and the expen-
diture suddenly rises from £733, 16s. lid. in 1714 to
£1872, 18s. lOd. in 1715, the ' clothes ' bills alone increasing
from an average of about £60 to £346, 13s. 4d., one can
quite undertsand Mr. Baillie being somewhat horrified.
As an example of the careful way Lady Grisell went
xxxii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
into all matters of expenditure, note the following little
statement. The unusual circumstance — namely, that
Lady Grisell makes a mistake in it and thus arrives at a
wrong result — rather adds to its interest. It is merely a
jotting on a scrap of paper in Lady Grisell's handwriting,
and was drawn up while abroad in 1732 to enable her to
judge whether it was cheaper to take a house or to go
into lodgings.
D.
C. G.i
By wood in chamber . . . (£10 16
0)
54
0 0
Flamboys ,
(1 2
0)
5
5 0
Chocalet
(6 2
9)
30
7 0
Canary
(8 16
0)
44
0 0
Cyder and Ale
(5 0
9)
25
2 0
AYax Candle
(2 5
7)
11
4 0
Tee .
(1 4
0)
6
0 0
Sugar
(4 3
8)
20
9 0
Drinkmoney
(1 0
10)
5
2 2
Sundry smalls
(0 12
0)
3
0 0
Coffie
(0 4
11)
1
3 3
House Book in 13 weeks aftei
;
taking what is above
out (
)f it .
(76 12
2)
383
0 5
2593
3
0
383
0
5
House Rent
. (24 0
0)
120
0
(V
Saverio
Maid
. (0 18
0)
4
5
0
Cook
. (4 4
0)
21
0
0
Cook's Boy
. (0 18
0)
4
5
0
30
0
0
533 0 5
this is 41 Ducat a week for 13 weeks and is in Sterling
money £8 4 sh. pr week which is in 13 weeks st. 108. 12.
In Madam Petits we was 12 guinys pr week, which in
13 weeks is ... . £163 14 0
1 Ducats, carlins, and grains. See Appendix iv. p. 424.
'^ Lady Grisell turns the page here and carries forward 383.0.5 instead of
593-3-0-
INTRODUCTION
XXXIU
£173 14 0
1 also reckon for goats milk
Ice and sundry other things 10 0 0 this £10 cither
taken of mine or
aded to Madam
Petits makes it the
same thing,
with a much better dyit
2 more at table and verj'' often strangers and many more
candles.^
Madam Petits . . . £173 14 0
Naples . . . . 105 12 0
£65 2 0
It is in 13 weeks more by the above sum of £65, 2sh. at
Madam Petits than our own housekeeping which is just £5 a
week more.
Somehow these odd jottings on margins and scraps of
paper intensify the human interest of the Accounts.
Here are two or three more of a like nature.
' Salvato Guarino near the Vice Roys Palice sells all Grossery
wair.'
' remember to take out the velvet for Mr. Baillie's Night gown.'
' Francisco entered to Ld. Bn. the 15 of November at 5 Ducats
a moneth without meat and gets livera.'
' The price of washing at Naples 1st January 1733.
a shirt and cravat
shifts
Table cloths fine
Ditt cours
Shiets fine
Shits cours
Aprons and wast coats
table napkins fine
Ditt cours
all small pieces
We see from the Aecou
o
4
4
3
4
3
1
1
grams-
h
-2M.
n
h
i
1 '
4
its that Lady Grisell shortly
after her marriage took a course of cooking lessons from
^ This evidently refers to her own housekeeping.
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xxxiv HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Mrs. Addison, for which she paid £1, 6s. stg., and also a
course of dancing lessons for which £8 stg. M'^as to be paid
to ' perfite her.' Although no mention is made of her
having taken lessons in book-keeping, one cannot help
feeling that she must also have had careful instruction
in this branch of education. Lessons in this could appar-
•ently be had easily, for in 1701 £2 stg. is paid for James
Baillie — Lady Grisell's brother-in-law — ' lairning book-
keeping in pairt,' and in 1714 either she or one of her
daughters received lessons from Mr. M'Gie at a cost of
£3, 2s. stg. If she did not receive lessons, she must have
been a born book-keeper, for her accounts are remarkably
able productions.
Her principal account-book was what she termed her
' Day Book,' but what would nowadays be termed a ' Cash
Ledger,' for in it she did not enter her expenditure as it
occurred from da}^ to day, but her expenditure as special-
ised under separate headings. These headings vary from
time to time, some of the less important being occasion-
ally merged in others. The following may be taken as
those of a fixed nature : —
I. Household Expenditure. This included all expenses
in connection with food, drink, lighting, firing, washing
and feeding of animals destined for table use.
II. Sundries, which included Education.
III. Servants' wages.
IV. Men-servants' Clothing.
V. Clothing for herself, husband, and children.
VI. Furniture and Furnishings.
The minor headings which occur in some years but
which are merged under Sundries in other years are : —
I. Expenses of Horses.
II. Doctors and Surgeons.
III. Business Charges.
IV. Estate Expenditure.
INTRODUCTION xxxv
V. Cess.
VI. Pocket-money.
It will thus be seen that Lady Grisell's ' Day Book '
nominally embraces the whole of the family expenditure.
Full details, however, are not given under the headings
' Household Expenditure ' and ' Pocket Money.' The
reason for this omission in the first case is that for small
ordinary house expenditure Lady Grisell kept separate
books, the monthly totals of which she alone posted to
her ' Day Book ' ; in the second, the reason was probably
that her husband, to whom the ' Pocket INIoney ' was paid,
kept no account thereof.
Lady Grisell left three ' Day Books ' folio size, the first
running from 1692 to 1718 inclusive, and containing 442
pages ; the second from 1719 to 1742 inclusive, and con-
taining 354 pages, and the third from 1742 to the date of
her death (6th December 1746), continued b}^ her daughter,
Lady ]Murray. She also left books containing the accounts
of expenses in connection with their journeys to Bath
and to the Continent ; Books containing Inventories of
Bottles, etc. ; a Book of Receipts ; a Book of Bills of
Fare ; Books relating to estate management during the
years 1742, 1743 and 1744, and many other Account and
Memoranda Books. All are written in her own clear
handwriting, the character of which was so well known
that in 1706, when the leaders of the 'Squadrone Volante'
were corresponding in cypher, Secretary Johnston writes
to Baillie, ' Write by an unknown hand ; your wife's is as
well known as your own.'
It will be easily understood that with such a wealth of
material in these papers, the difficulty of selection has been
great. After careful consideration, the Editor has resolved
to deal mainly with Lady Grisell's first ' Day Book,'
adding one or two selections from the other books. The
reasons that have led to this choice are, first, that Day
xxxvi HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Book No. 1 deals with that intensely interesting period of
Scottish history immediately preceding and succeeding
the Union of the Parliaments ; second, that it gives the
expenses of living in Edinburgh, in the country, and in
London ; and third, that it gives the accounts for old
INL's. Baillie's funeral and for the marriages of Lady
Grisell's two daughters. Even this selected volume can
only be dealt with by means of extracts, and much
interesting matter has thus to be left out. An attempt
has been made to remedy this by the formation of appen-
dices drawn from the M'hole volume and by the notes
which follow ; but such a method is at best unsatisfactory,
taking as it were the flavour from the meat, and the
Editor is only too conscious of its inadequacy.
Then as to the extracts themselves and their arrange-
ment, it has been thought best not to select individual
entries, which would have still further destroyed the
character of the Accounts, nor vet to select individual
years, which would have led in some cases to needless
repetition, but to take as the unit of selection individual
branches, choosing the most interesting of each respect-
tively, and arranging these not chronologically as a whole,
but, in order to facilitate reference, chronologically in
their respective groups. Thus all entries dealing with
any one subject, such as, say, ' Expenses of Horses,' will
be found together.
As already stated, the Accounts begin about a year
after the marriage of Mr. Baillie and Lady Grisell, that is,
in the autumn of 1692, and are peculiarly rich in all sorts
of information which can be most suitably referred to
under separate headings.
INTRODUCTION xxxvii
I. Rents of Houses and of Lodgings and Expenses
OF Travelling
We learn from the Accounts that the young couple
took up their quarters in a house in Warriston Close,^
perhaps the same house which had belonged to Baillie's
grandfather, Lord Warriston, and to which his father
had turned on his wav to execution with the remark to
his sister-in-law, ' Many a sweet day and night with God
had your now glorified father in that lodging or chamber.' ^
The rent paid for it was £200 Scots, or £16, 13s. 4d. stg.,
and the whole expenditure of their establishment, including
upkeep of property, expenses of horses, journeys to London,
etc., for the next three years averaged £430 per annum,
which does not seem overmuch, according to our modern
ideas, for a ' Baron,' as the county Members of Parliament
were called. It must, however, be borne in mind that
at this time the salary of a Judge of the Court of Session
was only £300 (raised in 1707 to £500), Avhile a Peer with
an income of £500 a year could not plead poverty as an
excuse for changing his politics.^
In 1697 old Mrs. Baillie died, leaving to her daughters,
Helen Baillie or Hay and Elizabeth Baillie or Weems, her
property, which consisted of household furniture and
£50 stg. invested in the Darien Scheme.'^ Her death set
free her jointure of £102, 13s. 8d., and George Baillie and
his family accordingly moved into a more expensive house
belonging to Bailie Hamilton, at a rent of £38, 6s. Their
flitting cost them 18s. 4d. Here they remained but a short
time, moving in 1700 to a house belonging to Sir James
Foulis of Colinton (generally known as Lord Colinton),
' Warriston Close is still extant, running north from the High Street at a
point nearly opposite to St. Giles.
- Wodrow's Atiakcta. ^ Lockhart Papers.
■* Edinburgh Testaments, 17th September 1707.
xxxviii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
which was probably situated in Foulis Close, and for which
the rent was £33, 6s. 8d. This house they occupied until
1707, when they gave up living in Edinburgh and retired
to Mellerstain. Mr. Baillie, however, came regularly to
Edinburgh for the Assembly of the Church of Scotland,
lodging either at Mrs. Room's ^ (an excellent name for a
lodging-house keeper) or Mrs. Marshall's, paying as a
rule 5s. stg. per night : — ' A chamber in Mrs. Marshalls 2s.,
candle, 2s., maid Is., 5s.'
What added very considerably to Mr. Baillie's expen-
diture was the necessity of frequent journeys to London on
political business. We find such entries as : —
1694. Augt. 1. Taken with me to England £948, 16s.
(£79, Is. 4d. stg.).
English road when I last came from London with the Secre-
tary £80, 10s. (£6, 14s. 2d. stg.).^
1707. April 1. to London journey in his pocket 50 Guinys.
For to answer bills to London £103 stg. more.
To Mr. Watson for a bill sent to London to Jeris £2100, 4s.
(£175, Os. 4d. stg.).
There can be little doubt that when Baillie travelled
by himself he rode, as there are constant references to
the pm'chase, conveyance, and repair of ' Clog bags.' On
one occasion, at least (1714), he returned by sea to New-
castle, which cost him £3, 7s., whence he proceeded to
IMellerstain by horse, the hire of these (three) costing him
£2, 5s.
Then in addition to these business journeys there were
constant journeys for health. In 1696 an expedition was
made to Bath at a cost of £84, Os. 9d. stg.^ The October
^ George Hume of Kimmerghame, an uncle of the Earl of Marchmont,
when he came to Edinburgh in January 1695 lodged 'in Mrs. Romes, up
Blair's stair, the fourth story upon the street.' — George Hjtme^s Diary, (\\xo\.e.d,
in Miss Warrender's Marchmont and the Htimes of Polwarth.
" Mr. Secretary Johnston, Baillie's uncle.
■'* This may have been a political journey, as the Court was often at Bath.
INTRODUCTION xxxix
of the following year they were at Prestonpans ^ at a cost
of £18 stg., where they spent a considerable sum on ' Scots
tartan muslin.' In 1701 they went to Scarborough from
9th July to 12th September, during which time meat and
lodgings cost them £33, 6s. 8d. stg. From thence they
brought back ' Two barrils of souns and gullits,'^ which
cost lis. (stg.) and 8s. 4d. (stg.) for carriage. It is curious
to find Prestonpans a more expensive place of residence
than Scarborough.
After the Union Baillie must have been more and more
in London, for his daughter writes that ' he strictly ob-
served his attendance in Parliament and blamed those
who made a bustle to get in and then absented themselves
upon any pretence.' Unfortunately we have no note of
his expenses nor of the presents he always brought back
to his children, unless the following are some of them : —
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On the accession of George i., when Baillie became a
Lord of the Admiralty, he moved all his family to London.
Two servants, Tam Youll and Katie Hearts, were sent by
sea, ' fraught to London victuals furnished by the skipper
£l, 10s.,' and the heavy baggage, including four and a half
barrels of herrings, was also sent by sea in three different
ships at a cost of £3, 8s. The family went by stage-coach,^
^ A small town on the Firth of Forth, eight or nine miles east of Edin-
burgh.
^ When the Baillies dined with Lady Essex in London, on 2ist December
1722, the second course consisted of 'a sadle mutton, a dish cod souns with
hard eg and half yolks of egs and some poatched egs on it.'
^ This must be a very early reference to stage-coaches in Scotland. There
was no coach between Edinburgh and Glasgow until 1749.
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five seats costing £22, 10s, and 2s. 6d. for booking money.
A sum of £2, 7s. was paid for excess luggage, each person
being allowed 20 lbs. free. The coach was apparently
joined at Dunglass,^ the Baillies taking with them ' little
Robie Pringle,'^ and the expenses of the six during the
thirteen days which it took them to reach London were
only £10. They arrived in London on 18th December
1714, and at first hired a furnished house at a rent of
£14 per month. This they left at the end of June 1715,
paying in addition to their rent ' To Mr. Brown for spoiling
his furniture 10s. 2d.,' and took an unfurnished house,
apparently at Chelsea, at a rent of £45 per annum. They
must have taken the house as it stood, for the repairing
of the roof, glazing of windows, painting and sundry
' reparations ' were all paid for by them.
In August 1716 they paid one of their many visits to
Bath. They travelled by coach via Oxford, the journey
there and back to London costing £20, the servants and
luggage going separately. Their lodgings there, four
rooms and garrets, were at the rate of £2, 5s. 9d. per week.
In addition to the entries relating to taking the waters,
amusements, etc., there occurs the following : — ' For
cleaning all our teeth at Bath £l, 14s.'
As already stated, Rachel Baillie was married in 1717
to Lord Binning. As the marriage was to take place in
Edinburgh, the family, five in number, left London on
5th August in a coach with six horses, which was to carry
them to Scotland in nine days ^ for £32, 15s. The expenses
on the road on this occasion amounted to £14, 13s. 9d.
^ A property on the east coast of Berwickshire belonging to Sir John Hall.
See p. 27.
- Probably the son of Mr. Robert Pringle, Under-Secretary of State, who
was the third son of Sir Robert Pringle of Stitchell.
' This must have been very fast travelling for those days. In 1725 the hire
of ' a close bodyed carriage and six horses ' cost £'^0, and the journey took
fourteen days. In 1717 the commissioners on the forfeited estates were each
allowed £^0 for their expenses on the road to Scotland.
LADY BINNING.
AGED 29.
{From a Portrait at Mellerstain by Maria I'ere/sl.)
INTRODUCTION xli
In 1729 the household were again resident at Mellerstain,
and consequently the visit to Bath in that year was a much
greater undertaking. The expedition consisted of a coach
and six horses and eight riding horses, the journey from
Berwick to Bath taking sixteen davs. There were six of
the family in the coach and two maids ; and the cost of
their provisions on the road amounted to £23, 18s. 6d.
The board and lodging of seven men for the same period
came to £5, 12s., or at the rate of Is. per diem per head,
while the cost of feeding the horses during the same period
amounted to £30, Is. 9M. The horses got five days' rest
at Bath, after which nine of them were sent back to
Scotland under charge of ' Tam,' who got £14, 14s. for his
expenses on the journey.
But by far the most important of their journeys was
undertaken in 1731, when Lord Binning was ordered
abroad for his health. Jerviswood, who was getting on
in life, was by no means anxious to undertake the fatigues
of a long foreign sojourn, but he yielded to the solicitations
of his son-in-law, and on the 9th of June 1731 he and
Lady Grisell, their daughters Grisie and Rachel, their
son-in-law Lord Binning, and their granddaughter ' little
Oris ' landed at Rotterdam. They were accompanied
by at least four servants, two women and two men, but it
is a little difficult to gather the total number of the party,
as friends seem to join and leave them. The accounts
show clearly the course of their journey. They travelled
by schuit or public canal boat, by diligence, by private
carriage, and by chair. As was but natural, they made
first for Utrecht, where Lady Grisell had lived in exile
with her father, and where, in spite of poverty and
anxiety, they had been a merry household. ' She had
the greatest pleasure in shewing us every corner of the
town, which seemed fresh in her memory ; particu-
larly the house she had lived in, which she had a great
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desire to see ; but when she came there they would not
let her in, by no arguments either of words or money, for
no reason but for fear of dirtying it. She offered to put
off her shoes, but nothing could prevail, and she came
away much mortified at her disappointment.' ^
The fkst long stay was made at Spa, where they took
lodgings at the ' Loup,' engaging their own cook. They
must have found this house comfortable, for the party
makes a still longer stay in it on their return journey.
Here they took the waters, and here also they gave a ball
and supper to ' 70 persons.' The expense of this latter
amounted to £13, 4s. 5d., including £l, lis. 6d. for the
' fidels ' and 12s. for the ' Buckie ' (bouquet). Then they
moved on through Liege, Namur, Arlon (where we find
the suggestive note ' imposed on '), and other places on
the road south. Each little town provided its custom-
house worries and ' searchers ' to be squared, sometimes
not altogether satisfactorily, as witness Champagne,
where ' we was searched overly,' and Chalons, where ' we
was stopd 3 days by the impertinence of the Bourro.*
They reached Lyons on 11th October, and contracted to
be conveyed to Tmin partly by chaises and partly by
chairs ' over the Alps cald Munt Sines.' (It will be noted
that the sums entered for conveying the party from place
to place generally include meals, sometimes two and some-
times three a day.) Then they passed through Milan,
Parma, Reggio, Modena, Bologna (where it is refreshing
to see the first entry of lis. 9d. for ' sasageses '), Loretto,
and so to Rome, where they arrived on ' the 23 Novr. at
one o'clock of the day 1731.' On this occasion but a short
stay was made in the Eternal City, the party pushing on
to Naples, which was their objective, and which they
reached on 5th December.
' Lady Murray's Memoirs.
LORD BINNING.
{From a Portrait at Mellerstaiti.)
INTRODUCTION xliii
At Naples they took a house at £8 per month, for which
they had to supply china, glass, cutlery, napery, etc.
They also hired a coach and horses at £8 per month, and
engaged a cook and cook-boy, a maid, and M. Saverio and
a ' Vanditor.' Here Lady Grisell at once set to work to
learn Italian, her master being paid the munificent sum
of 13s. 7d. per month ! In regard to this her daughter
Avrites : ' At Naples she shewed what would have been
a singular quickness of capacity and apprehension at any
age much more at hers. She knew not one word of
Italian, and had servants of the country that as little
understood one word she said ; so that at first she was
forced to call me to interpret betwixt them ; but in a
very little while, with only the help of a grammar and
dictionary, she did the whole business of her family with
her Italian servants, went to shops, bought everything
she had occasion for, and did it so well that our acquaint-
ances who had lived many years there begged the favour
of her to buy for them when she provided herself ; think-
ing and often saying she did it to much better purpose
than they could themselves.'
As well as studying Italian, the Baillies at this time
also studied music, and had much music copied, amongst
which the music of Corelli is specially mentioned.
They remained in Naples until the beginning of May 1732,
when they went for the summer to Portiche, again taking
a house and having to provide a good many furnishings.
On the 14th November they returned to Naples, where
apparently thej?^ were Joined by two of Lord Binning's
sons and a second daughter, and where Lord Binning
died on 27th December. The Accounts show the expense
of the mourning, including a velvet nightgown for ' my D.,*
which sounds strange to ears accustomed to the modern
meaning of the word ' nightgown.' After this sad event
chaises and saddlery were repaired, boxes purchased and
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got ready, accounts settled, and a start made on the
homeward journey. Before leaving Naples, however,
they sent home by ship a supply of hams, parmesan cheese,
and macaroni. They also shipped home marble slabs to
the value of £646, 16s. sterling. ^
They reached Rome on 29th March 1733, and remained
there until 22nd April. Thence they proceeded to Florence,
where Lady Grisell had the pictures already referred to
of her husband, her daughter Grisie, and her two grand-
daughters Gris and Helen painted by Mr. Martin for
£11, lis., and where she saw the ostrich in reference to
which she afterwards notes for her grandsons, ' If you
have any brass money in your pocket it will be very good
for the ostrich.' ^ At Bologna they took a box in the
Opera House, which they provided with a cushion and
cloth ; and at Venice they bought books and treacle ! and
attended amongst other things a ' Gundaliers ' wedding,
subscribing a shilling to the fiddlers. Thence through
Verona, Trent, Innsbruck, Frankfort, Cologne, they worked
their way back to Spa, where they again made a long stay,
and then passing through Liege and Brussels to Paris
they finally crossed over from Calais to Dover, carrying
with them silver, lace, and clothes of all sorts.
Looking through these Accounts, one cannot but note
the constant repairing required by the chaises, or ' cheases,'
as Lady Grisell frequently writes it, the furbishing up of
pistols and purchasing of sword belts, etc., indicative of
' Boxes containing all sorts of things, clothing, books, honey, treacle, pins,
needles, lamps, etc., were sent home in various ways: ' by the Dut. of Newcastle
to be left at Dr. Mowbrays,' 'in the trunk that goes to Leghorn to be sent in
a man of war,' to be sent by John Gordon Banker in Rotterdam 'in a Scots
ship to Robert Foulerton at the Custome Mouse in I.eath,' etc. Careful lists
were kept of what each box contained, and at the top of one of these is a deleted
note in Lady Grisell's hand, '43 Marbel Tables in the coach house, 2 tables in
the galarie.'
- See p. 396.
■GRISIE' AND 'RACHIE' BAILLIE,
AGED 6 AND 2 RESPECTIVELY.
(From a Picture at Mellentain by John Scougall.)
INTRODUCTION xlv
the bad ^ and dangerous state of the roads. It will also
be noticed that even at that early stage in the history of
tea the British matron refused to do without it, and
seemed to have had little or no difficulty in obtain-
ing it.
Amongst the purchases, ' beavor ' skin stockings strike
one as peculiar ; and the number of pairs of spectacles
purchased is also remarkable. It looks as if a pair must
have been left behind by mistake at every stopping-place.
Amongst the books purchased abroad there are three
cookery-books added to Lady Grisell's household library.
II. Education and Amusements
As is but natural, entries relating to ' Grisie ' and
' Rachie ' bulk largely in the Accounts. We cannot trace
the career of ' Grisie ' from her birth, as that event took
place shortly before the Accounts begin, but we can
follow the life of Rachie from its very dawn, when £2, 18s.
stg. is paid to Mrs Scott the midwife, 9s. 8d. to Mr.
Livingston for christening her, 3s. 8d. to the ' bathel of
the Church,' and 4s. lOd. in charity, up to the date of her
marriage in 1717, when £4, 6s. is paid ' To my Rachys Pro-
clamation etc.,' and £1, Is. 6d. 'For the garland that is brock
over the Brid's head,' ' For Bryds favours £3,' and ' To the
Brids Garter £l, 3s. '^ We can watch the two sisters grow-
' ' I bought a chaise at Rome, which cost me twenty five pounds, good English
pounds, and had the pleasure of being laid low in it the very second day after I set
out. I had the marvellous good luck to escape with life and limbs ; but my
delightful chaise broke all to pieces, and I was forced to stay a whole day in
a hovel while it was tacked together in such a way as would serve to drag me
hither.' So writes Lady Mary Wortley Montagu from Naples on 25th Novem-
ber 1739.
- 'At tlie marriages of persons of the upper class favours were sewn upon
the bride's dress. When the ceremony was concluded all the members of the
company ran towards her, each endeavouring to seize a favour. When the
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ing up by watching their petticoats growing down. ' 1708.
For lining Rachys gown and letting down her peticoats '
2s. stg. Then there are all the payments in connection with
their education, and with IMiss May Menzies who came 'at
Lambis 1705 to wate on my children,' and who remained
as a friend of the family presumably until her death.
Miss Menzies was the daughter of Wilham Menzies of
Raw, W.S., and her nominal salary was £8 stg. per annum,
but ' I have always paid her £100 Scots ' (£8, 6s. 8d. stg.).
She was a devoted friend to her charges, for in 1709 Lady
Grisell enters, ' To her over and above her fie for her care
of the bairens Avhen they had the fever ' £27, 12s. 2d. stg.,
and there are also many entries of presents given to her,
such as dresses, etc. Talking of her girlhood. Lady Murray
writes as follows : ' We were always with her [Lady
Grisell] at home and abroad, but when it was necessary
we should learn what was fit for us ; and for that end
she got Mrs. May Menzies, a daughter of Mr. Menzies
of Raws, Writer to the Signet, to be our governess, who
was well qualified in all respects for it, and whose faithful
care and capacity my mother depended so much upon,
that she was easy when we were with her. She was always
with us when our masters came and had no other thought
or business but the care and instruction of us ; which I
must here acknowledge with gratitude, having been an
indulgent though exact mistress to us when young ; and
to this time, it being now forty-five years that she has
lived with us, a faithful, disinterested friend, with good
confusion had ceased the bridegroom's man proceeded to pull off the bride's
garter, which she modestly dropped. This was cut into small portions, which
were presented to each member of the company.' — Roger's Scotland, Social and
Domestic. We also learn from the same source that it was the custom when
a bride of a more humble station entered her new home to break a cake of
shortbread over her head, the fragments of which were gathered up by the
young people and dreamed on. Perhaps the bride's garland here mentioned
was a prettier form of the same custom.
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•sense, good temper, entirely in our interest, and that with
so much honesty that she always spoke her mind sincerely
without the least sycophantry.'
The following letter of instructions by Lady Grisell to
Miss Menzies gives us some idea of her duties : —
Edinburgh, August 16, 1705.
Directions for Grisie given May Menzies
To rise by seven a clock and goe about her duty of reading,
etc. etc., and be drest to come to Breckfast at nine, to play on
the spinnet till eleven, from eleven till twelve to write and
read French. At two a clock sow her seam till four, at four
learn arithmetic, after that dance and play on the spinet again
till six and play herself till supper and to bed at nine.
But the education of Grisie, poor mite, had begun long
before this, and had been conducted partly at school and
partly by special masters. On 10th November 1696, when
she is just four years old, her reading master receives
4s. lOd. for the quarter, and her education in this branch
is completed in 1701, Avhen a payment of £l, 10s. is made
' to Porterfield to perfect Grisie in reading.' Mr. Thomson
receives 9s. 8d. per quarter for teaching writing, Mr.
Brown £1 for teaching arithmetic, and Mr. M'Gie £l. Is. 6d.
for teaching geography. We also read of 5s. 5d. as the
quarter's fee for the reading school ; of 2s. 3d. for ' Rachies
quarter at the School,' and of 4s. lOd. paid for ' the Bairens
milk going to the School.' There is no mention of French
lessons — except those given by Miss Menzies — until the
family are in London in 1715, when ' Mistress Faucour '
receives 10s. for a month's tuition and Mr. Dumbar £l, Is. 6d.
for the same.
Then there were dancing lessons, both for the children
and, as already mentioned, for Lady Grisell herself. The
children's lessons ' with the Frenchman ' cost about
£l, 3s. 8d. a month, just about half what was paid in London
to ' Mr. Isaach for a months dancing to Rachie £3, 4s. 6d.'
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Then of course they go to the balls given by their dancing
masters, and we read : —
1702. May. To Rachys Ball and Grisics . . £0 4 11
For a straw hat to Grisies Ball . 0 10 0
Gloves to them . . . 2 6 0
Cheries at the Ball . . . 0 10 0
We also find the rather suggestive entry : ' To Grisies
master for coals ' Is. 2|d stg.
In addition to going out to dances they sometimes had
the fiddlers in, for 4s. lOd. was paid ' To Thomson the violer
for j)laying to the bairens a day,' and 9s. 8d. was paid ' For
the Kelso fiddlers 2 days at Mellerstains.'
Of course the fiddlers may have been employed for
the pleasure of their music alone, for music was one
of George Baillie's delights, and one which was shared
in bv his wife and children. The musical education of
the latter was certainly varied. ' Grisie ' was taught to
play the spinet, virginal, viol and harp. She was also
taught singing and ' through bass,' while ' Rachie ' learns
the spinet, virginal, and flute. ' Grisie ' continued her
musical studies long after her marriage, and we find her
taking advantage of her stay in Naples, then one of the
principal schools of music in the world, to prosecute them
there. By the way, there was apparently no one in
Edinburgh competent to mend a virginal, although there
were tuners there, for in 1714 the ' fine virginal ' has to
be sent from Mellerstain to Leith and shipped to London
to be repaired. The repairs cost £12, 10s. and the expenses
of getting it there and back came to £2, 3s. 8d. How
devoted the family were to music is shown from their
Accounts while in London, which show constant entries
for tickets for operas and concerts. They evidently
belonged to the Handel faction, and not to that of his
rival, Bononcini, for they patronise the concert of Castruchi,
the leader of Handel's Opera band, who was famous as
INTRODUCTION xlix
a performer on the ' Violetta Marina,' an instrument of
his own invention ; and they go to hear Bernachi, ' II Re
dei cantatori,' take the part of Goffredo in Handel's
' Rinaldo,' and Berenstadt sing the bass part of Arganti.
Evidently Bernachi, whose singing particularly appealed
to the musically educated, was a special favourite of
theirs. He presented them with a dog called ' Senorina,'
and they presented him with a gold watch costing £25
and a gold chain costing £4, 10s. ^Vhen her grandsons
Lord Haddington and his brother went abroad in 1740,
Lady Grisell specially directed them when at Bologna to
' ask also for Sig'"^ Barnachi the famous singer and Sig^^
Sandoni the husband of the Cuzone,^ they will be pleased
to be of service to any of our family.'
Then they bought tickets from the famous singer IMrs.
Anastasia Robinson, afterwards Countess of Peterborough,
and they no doubt attended her weekly concerts in Golden
Square, where were to be found ' all such as had any pre-
tensions to politeness and good taste.' ^
Concert tickets in London cost about 10s. each ; while
in Edinburgh we read of ' a concert to Grissie,' at various
times costing Is. 2|d. stg., 2s. 2d., 2s. 6d., etc.
Money was easily spent in London on less intellectual
pleasures than music. Masquerades, a form of entertain-
ment to which the king was partial, were naturally fashion-
able, and to many of these the Baillies went as ' Caposhins,'
' Pilgrims,' etc. Rachel was present as a ' Country Girl '
at the famous masquerade at Montagu House, tickets for
^ Cuzzoni, one of the most famous singers of the day. She appeared first in
London on I2th January 1722 as Teophane in Handel's * Otto.' It was while
rehearsing for this opera that Handel in a rage seized her round the waist
and threatened to throw her out of the window. On one occasion a gentleman
in the gallery poetically exclaimed, ' Damn her, she has a nest of nightingales
in her belly.' She married Sigr. Sandoni, a harpsichord master and composer
of some eminence. She was a foolish and extravagant woman, and eventually
died in great poverty. — Grove's Dictionary of Music.
^ Burney's History.
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which were much sought after, and where ' there was a
drawing-room for the King who was not there,' and
' where everything was in great order and magnificence,'
and ' could not have cost less than five or six hundred
pounds.'^ Then they lost money at cards at the Dukes
of Roxburgh and Montrose, at the Earls of Stair and
Rothes, at Ladies Loudoun, Strafford, Mar, Dupplin, etc.
They dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales, with
the Dukes of Chandos and Hamilton, Sir Robert Walpole,
Mr. Speaker Onslow, Mr. Doddington, and scores of other
interesting people,^ ' and were as usual in the first circles,
Mr. Baillie's house being the resort of the best company
and the rendezvous of many of the wits of that day.'^
We have mentioned how the Baillies accepted a present
of a dog from Signor Bernachi, but we read in Lady
Murray's Memoirs of another present which was not so
well received. She writes : ' He had an infinite pleasure
in giving even little trifling presents to his friends, but
did not like receiving. If it was from any he thought
had a view to his interest for them he would not suffer
it though never so trifling. He made us return a parrot
given us when he was in the Admiralty by a gentleman
who was soliciting something there.' As to this Mr. Harry
Graham writes : * ' To be given a parrot at any time is
annoying, but when such a gift partakes of the nature of
a bribe it becomes doubly offensive.' Mr. Graham, how-
ever, forgot when writing this that Mr. Baillie's fondness
for animals was well known. An examination of Lady
Grisell's accounts shows that the gentleman who presented
the parrot was not such a simpleton as Mr. Graham not
^ Diary of Mary, Countess of Corvper.
' See 'Bills of Fair,' p. 281, in which Lady Grisell not only states with
whom they dined, but what they had for dinner, and how the dishes were
arranged on the table.
' Appendix to Lady Murray's Memoirs.
* A Group of Scottish Wot?ien, by Harry Graham.
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unnaturally concludes, for Mr. Baillie had a sufficient
liking for parrots to pay 4s. lOd. for having one brought
from Glasgow in 1703, and a reward of 2s. ' for finding the
parrit,' when it escaped in 1704. Besides this parrot
there were purchased in 1705 a mavis for 2s. 6d., 2 lint
whites for Is. 8d., and in 1713 the then large sum of £l, 10s.
is paid for a ' mavis cage.' ' The dog Lyon ' is purchased
in 1718 for 2s. 6d., and in the same year 10s. 6d. is paid
' To teach Jessie the dog tricks.'
III. Servants
The question of servants seems to have bulked as
largely then as now. One is accustomed to talk of the
good old-fashioned servant who came as a girl and died
as a nuisance at an advanced age, but although there
are occasional traces of this class of domestic to be met
with in the Baillie Accounts, one is more struck by the
constant changes in the household. In fact, those changes
are so frequent that it is very difficult to judge of the size
of the establishment,^ and one is reluctantly driven to the
conclusion that Lady Grisell was in some ways just too
good a manager. For instance, there are eighteen different
servants mentioned in the first three years of their married
life, and that in an establishment consisting apparently
of four women servants and a manservant. During the
next ten years there are sixty different servants men-
tioned, of whom thirty-one do not remain a year and
seventeen do not remain two years. When, after the
accession of George i., the family took up its quarters in
London, the same ill luck as to domestics followed them
there. In 1715 there were no fewer than eight cooks : one
remained a day, one a night, and one made out two months.
servants.
^ In 1697 cess is paid for eight servants, and in London there were eight
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but was then carried away by the constables. The same
misfortune overtook Hellen Williams the housemaid, who
is charged with 8s. 2d. ' For constables and cariing befor a
Justice of Peace.' No hint is given of their crimes, nor
do we learn anything of their fate, unless this item in the
following year's Accounts has reference to them : — ' July
31. To the servants at Newgate Prison 2s. 6d.' In 1717
there were four cooks, one of whom stayed a night and
one a fortnight and was paid for a month, which meant a
good deal under Lady Grisell's careful sway. No wonder
Lady Grisell when an old woman wrote to her daughter,
Lady Murray : ' My dear, Stay till Saturday if Lady S.
desires you, and tell her not to be uneasie at the disap-
pointments in servants, for being a thing she will always
meet, it would be a plague indeed if one laid it to heart.
If she can lift her house to St. Giles's we should all live
together and everyone serve another, but I would keep
the purse and make them eat their meat in order. Om^
housemaid is so long that your sister has made two of
her, for we have only her and the cook and I 'm in no
hope for a laundrimaid. You '11 think I have said enough
with a vomite on my stomach which is only by way of
prevention.' ^
There are, as has been hinted, several notable exceptions
to this short service system. May Menzies, the governess,
to whom reference has already been made, remained all
her life, and Tam Youll, the coachman, seems also to have
been more or less of a fixture. Tam entered the Baillies'
service in 1706 as groom, at a money wage of £l, 10s. stg.
and his clothes, excepting linen. He eventually became
^ This is written by Lady Grisell in an old and shaky hand in the middle of
an undated letter from Lady Binning to Lady Murray describing a seizure Lady
Grisell had had the previous night, diagnosed by Dr. Carlton as the result of
wind caused by too long fasts. He advises ' she should eat little at a time, and
often, fasting long is very bad for her.'
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coachman, and went with the family to London, where his
wages were raised to £3. His career exempHfies another
point in connection with Lady Grisell's household service,
viz. the custom of fining the domestics for faults and
charging them with any loss sustained through their
carelessness or misconduct. Thus there is an entry in
Tam Youll's account as follows : 1709. ' To him for
George Dods loss of work when drunk and lam'd his leg
£7, 4s. Scots.' ^ And George Dods's account for the same
year contains this entry : ' March 25. For a velvet cap
he spoilt £2, 8s. Scots.' In 1712 Tam is again in disgrace
for having got drunk at Makerstoun, for which he is fined
10s. stg., the entry being, ' April 20. To him for excessive
drinking.' In 1714 he meets with still severer punish-
ment in connection with a mare which had apparently
come by an accident through his carelessness, for he has
not only to pay £l, 10s. stg. ' To the ferriers account,'
but also 10s. stg. for the hire of a horse ' to the coch when
the mare was spoilt ' — £2 out of a money wage of £2, 10s.
When his wife is ill a doctor and drugs are provided for
her, but they are charged against him in his account —
£l, 16s. 6d. It is the same with the accounts of all the
other servants. They are carefully charged with anything
provided or done for them or their families beyond the
bargain of their service. They are fined for misbehaviour, ^
and have to pay for ' breakages ' unless reported the same
day.^
As this subject of servants is one of considerable interest,
Lady Grisell's ' Memorandums and Directions to Servants '
^ It was Youll who was drunk, and not Dods, as is shown by another
entry. By the way there were not fewer than three ' Tam Youlls ' in the
establishment at the same time, which must have made things a trifle
confusing.
- '1706. To James Carrin for wilful absence from his service, ;C3 Scots.'
His wage was ;^30 Scots.
^ See p. 275, rule 22.
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has been included in this volume. It is rendered still
more interesting by there being given a table of their
weekly diet — diet which would certainly not suit the
servant of to-dav. It will be observed that there is no
such thing as butter allowed with their ' oat loaf, broun
bread or Ry.'
As already stated, it is difficult to gather from the
earlier accounts how many servants were kept, but when
the family were in London there apjDcar to have been eight,
and latterly at Mellerstain there must have been about
seventeen, as is shown by a list of the servants as at
Whitsunday 1740 : — -
Ann Turnbull, Housekeeper
Margaret Rutherd, Gentlewoman
Betty ogle, Landry maid
Janet, Housemaid
Ann Castles, Cook
Margaret Hard5% Washer
Hellen Youl, Dary Maid
Pegie, Kitchen Maid
Hendry de Pallie, Butler
George Deans, Gardner
Robert Taylor, Cochman
William Hull, Footman
Tam Youll, his land coachman about
Andrew Youl, Postilion
George Carter, Groom .
Tam Youll, Carter
John, Under cook .
George Howison, herd without meat
George Dods, officer without meat .
In Appendix ii. will be found a note of the money wages
paid to servants prior to 1718 as shown in the Accounts.
In judging of the figures there given as applicable to
Scotland, it is necessary to add to the money wage the
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value of two pairs of shoes supplied annually to each
maidservant, and the value of all clothes except linen
supplied to most of the menservants. The former may
be taken as having been worth about 4s. stg. per annum
and the latter about £2 stg. per annum.
' Drink money ' or tips to servants of course figures
largely, and there seems little doubt that this burden was
even more oppressive then than now. As far as can be
judged, ' drink money ' per annum averaged about one-
fifth of the annual wage-bill of the servants. The entry
which gives the largest amount of drink money is in 1717,
and is as follows : ' For all drink money while at Edin-
burgh and travelling about the 6 moneths I was in Scot-
land £29, 10s. stg.' This would represent something like
£200 of the money of to-day, and strikes one as a large sum
even for people in such a position as the Baillies, who were
no doubt accompanied by two or three servants.
It is not only the amount of the drink money that is
surprising ; it is also the servants to whom drink money
is paid. The recipients are nearly always nm-ses.^ Of
course one can understand that at a christening the nurse
would be the natural person to tip, but the occasions cannot
always have been christenings, even admitting how fashion-
able large families then were.
As already stated, the menservants received clothing,
but it is a little difficult to give details of what was supplied,
as in most cases material is purchased and made up by
the tailor at a wage of 4d. a day and his food. Still it is
possible to glean a certain amount of information. Duncan
Bisset, whose wage was £2 per annum, received in 1702
shoes 4s., linen running drawers Is. 3d., running shoes
3s. 2d., twil drawers Is. 2|d., string 3|d., hat 4s. 6d., shirts
^ See vol. xxxix. of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,
p. 121, where Mr. A. O. Curie refers to this.
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4s. 8d., cap 3s., drawers and gloves 2s. 8d., stockings
Is. lOd., a bonnet Id., blue cloth for a coat £1, 14s. 3|d.,
for furnishing and making the same 4s. 8d. Duncan had
to supply at his own expense ' linen to his neck,' which
cost him 2s. lOd. In 1715 a suit of livery seems to have
cost £4, 10s., and a big lined coat £2, 10s., while a suit of
ordinary clothes for the barnman cost only £l.
We get another instance of Lady Grisell's careful
management from such entries as the following : ' 1716.
Nov. 16. For turning two coats into two waistcoats to
George and Tam 10s.'
Board wages in Scotland were at that time Is. a day,
but this no doubt included lodging, as the cost of feeding
a servant according to the dietary given by Lady Grisell
on p. 277 works out at about 3d. a day. In 1716 the
cost of feeding servants in England is given as follows : —
For meat to 4 servants when I was nine weeks at Bath from
8 Augt. till 8 Oct. from Betson . . . £0 15 2
For bread in that time . . . . . 12 2
For candle, cheese roots, etc. in that time . 0 6 6
For Bear 0 18 0
£3 1 10
or nearly Is. 9d. per head per week. Either the servants
must have starved themselves in 1716 or they must have
' done ' themselves uncommonly well in 1718, for under
8th October of that year we find the folloAving corresponding
entries : —
For meat to 4 servants for 6 weeks wt Mrs. Dundas
[while] I was at Bath from Clements Butcher . £1 8
bread 0 9 1
drink 2J barrill . . . . . . 12 6
sundry other provisions . . , . . 2 12 3
£5 11 10
This works out at 4s. 8d. per head per week.
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IV. Household Expenses
Under this heading, as ah*eady mentioned, Lady Grisell
entered all expenditure in connection with provisioning,
firing, lighting, and washing. Not only did she enter
sums actually spent, but she also charged herself with the
prices of all supj^lies drawn from the estate. These
would no doubt be credited in some ' home farm ' Account
Book, but that has not been found. During the first
years of her married life the details given under this heading
are rather meagre, but they increase year by year, and are
eventually very voluminous. It is, of course, quite impos-
sible to refer to all the articles mentioned, and as the
extracts from the Accounts may not give some of these,
an attemj)t has been made by means of an appendix to
keep a note of the most important of them and of their
prices, though the Editor is aware that a tabulated state
of this sort is apt to be misleading as it gives no indication
of what was in common or only in occasional use. An
attempt has also been made in the same Appendix to
contrast, where data make it possible, the prices ruling
in Scotland and in England in the early eighteenth century
with those of the present day.
A careful examination of this part of the expenditure
shows that on an average nearly a fourth of it was spent
on alcoholic drinks, and that exclusive of the beer brewed
at home. In Scotland, French wine (this may be another
name for claret, although Lady Grisell seems to draw a
distinction between the two), claret, canary, sack, mum,
brandy, ale, and beer are the principal drinks and are
bought in large quantities, while other wines and spirits,
such as burgundy, aquavita;, arrac, etc., are only rarely
mentioned. In England, on the other hand, arrac and
burgundy frequently figure, and champagne makes its
appearance. These two latter wines are generally bought
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together and in the same number of bottles, rather in-
dicating that they were got for special occasions.
Turning to temperance drinks, the first mention of tea
in Lady Grisell's Accounts is in 1702, when a shilling is
paid for a ' tee pot.' There is, however, a still earlier
reference to tea in the Inventory of the furnishings of
her mother-in-law's house in Edinburgh, which is dated
5th June 1696, and where we find mention of ' a whet
(white) ern (iron) tee stop (stoup).' Little tea-cups to
drink out of are also purchased in 1702, and a little ' yetlen ^
kettle ' and spirits of wine for boiling the same.^ Li 1705
we have ' 2 dozen china plats, 2 dusin tee and jacolite
dishes and a tee pot and basone bought by Greenknowe
in Holland ' £8, 2s. 6d. stg., and in 1706 Is. 4d. is paid for
' a pot for milk to tee.' We have thus the tea-table fairly
complete. The first entry narrating the purchase of tea
itself does not occur until 1708, when half a pound Bohea
is purchased for £l. That is at the rate of £1, 9s. Id. per
pound avoirdupois. Probably prior to that date any tea
got was purchased by Mr. Baillie when in London. With
tea at such a price Lady Grisell naturally buys but seldom,
and at first in half or quarter jjound quantities, generally
purchasing at the same time with Bohea an equal quantity
of green tea, which cost about half as much. As the
fortunes of the family improved and the price fell, tea
was used more and more, and latterly figures pretty often
in the Accounts. Coffee is mentioned in 1703, and a
' coper pott ' for Coffee is entered in old Mrs. Baillie's
Inventory of 1696. Chocolate is referred to as early as
1695. Fruits and confections are frequently bought, and
occasionallv ' taiblet for the bairens.'
^ Cast-iron.
2 Spirit lamps are mentioned in old Mrs. Baillie's Inventory already
referred to, where we find ' two coper things for holding of cotten to burn
with wein.'
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As to food supplies, not much need be said. With the
exception of anchovies, which are only once purchased,
the other items mentioned in the Appendix occur with
more or less frequency. Herrings of course bulk largely,
and many barrels of them are sent as presents to Mr.
Secretary Johnston in London. It is curious to note that
when in London Lady Grisell finds it cheaper to have
barley, starch, washing blue, butter, shelled peas, indigo,
etc., sent from Edinbm'gh.
Cows, oxen, calves, sheep, lambs, and pigs are also
largely used for food, as well as fowls, domesticated and
wild, the latter being pm*chased at all seasons. Unfor-
tunately there are no data to enable us to contrast the
prices of butcher meat in Scotland and England, but it
will be noted that in England mutton is dearer per pound
than beef, and the relative prices of cattle and sheep
indicate that this also was the case in Scotland. Lady
Murray gives us a carefully drawn up statement of the
quantities of supplies consumed by the establishment for
several years after Lady Grisell's death, two of which are
given as specimens,-^ but when considering these, it must
be borne in mind that Mellerstain was at that time the
residence of ladies only.
Perhaps it is not inappropriate under this head to refer
to the question of menus. Lady Grisell left a book of
these ' Bills of Fair ' as she calls them. They are peculiarly
interesting from the fact that they give not only her own
dinners, but the dinners of the friends by whom she was
entertained, and further, the lists are made so as to show
the position of the dishes on the table. A few of these
are printed,- and it will be seen from them that two
courses, a relief and dessert, constituted a formal dinner.
All the dishes of each course were set down on the
^ Pp. 304-306. 2 pp^ 281-304.
Ix HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
table, and a relief consisted of one or two dishes sub-
stituted for some of those of the first course. Some-
times Lady Grisell draws circles round the name of
each dish to represent the plate. From these ' Bills '
we see what was the dinner when the Baillies dined
with the Prince and Princess of Wales at Richmond, ^^'ith
the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Roxburgh, Bishop of
Sarum, Duke of Chandos, Lord Stair, Lord Oxford, Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu, etc., and what the Baillies gave
these great peojDle Avhen they in turn dined with them.
It will be noted that in these menus there is only one
mention of potatoes, and that in one of the foreign menus
in 1733.
The House Accounts contain many other odd items of
information. For instance, we find that Lady Grisell made
her own ink, and excellent ink it was, out of copperas and
galls, and her blacking for boots out of lamp black and
beeswax. We learn that a barrel containing thirty salted
cod cost £l, and a barrel of pickled oysters 2s. ; that out of
thirty dozen oranges and twenty dozen lemons Lady Grisell
had ' 8 gallons orange wine and large 12 gallons of panch
and 2 doz. oranges besides to preserve ' ; that a flambeau
cost from Is. 2d. to Is. 6d ; that the salmon bill for the
year amounted to £l, 7s. ; that tobacco cost 2s. and snuff
4s. a lb., also that the ladies used the latter. We find
that in London, as coals were expensive, a cinder sieve
was purchased, and charcoal and billets of wood were
burned, and brushwood and roots used. In fact, the
information is inexhaustible.
V. Buildings, Gardens, and Estate Management
The picturesque old tower of Jerviswood had been the
residence of George Baillie's father. There all his
children had been born, and there his widow took up
INTRODUCTION Ixi
her residence when the estates were restored to the
family. There is extant in the old lady's handwriting
an Inventory of the furniture and plenishings at Jervis-
wood as at November 1694. It is an interesting and mar-
vellously spelt document, and we learn from it how the
various rooms were furnished, or rather unfurnished :
witness the purple chamber, which contained only ' a
very old bed all brok,' and ' ]My study,' which belied its
title by containing nothing but water stoops, cups, coggies,
spits, girdels, raxes, quiechs, etc. There was no drawing-
room, ' My Chamber ' having no doubt contrived a double
debt to pay, and the dining-room held nought but ' en
beg ern chemly [grate] with a bake ' and ' a bege wenscott
tebell and two fur tember one lesser.' Some of the windows
would also appear to have been only half glazed, the lower
half being a hinged wooden shutter, as indicated by there
being ' In a beg pres ' ' 4 pr of wendow bands ' or hinges.
Jerviswood and its furnishings, its ' three win glasses two
of them wanting the foot,' was as typical of the Scotland
that was passing as Mellerstain Tower, the Baillies' other
residence, became typical of the Scotland that was coming.
As his mother w^as occupying the old family residence
of Jerviswood, George Baillie had perforce to adopt Meller-
stain Tower as his country residence. Unfortunately,
there are no traces left of the latter place. It probably
occupied the site of the buildings erected towards the
end of the eighteenth century from the designs of R. and J.
Adam, and united as these do now the two wings built
by George Baillie. In spite of the beautiful roofs and
exquisite woodcarvings of its successor, one cannot help
regretting the disappearance of the old Tower, the top
of which we learn from the Accounts was so carefully
repaired every year.
Probably during old Mrs. Baillie's lifetime this old
Tower was even less comfortable than Jerviswood, but
Ixii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
she had not long been dead, and the estates freed of her
jointure, before extensive repairs and additions began to
be made to it. During the years 1701, 1702, and 1703
£217, 12s. 4d. was spent on repairing the Tower and
offices. Each follo-^nng yeax something was added. In 1706
there is paid 6s. for measuring off ' 33 acres, 3 ruds, 17 f .
8 ells for a park,' and in 1708 the park dykes are built at
a cost of £54, 9s. 5d. In 1709, looking to the times, this
most extraordinary entry occurs : ' Expense of building
the Bath house £65, 4s. 4d.' In 1711 a new kitchen is
built which apparently had a thatched roof. And so the
additions go on.
Nor is the garden or planting neglected. In 1701 young
trees are bought for 3s. 4d. from ' Hundalie,' and fir seed
is frequently got — sometimes from London. The price
of the latter seems to have varied considerably, from 2s.
per lb. in 1704, to 15s. in 1711. There is a nursery formed
at Jerviswood, and large numbers of j^oung trees purchased
for there and Mellerstain — limes, yews, thorns, planes,
elms, geans, firs, chestnuts, walnuts, and fruit trees.
Acorns are also got. In 1712 we have one of Lady Grisell's
characteristic entries : ' For young trees bought by John
Hope which was a perfit cheat £2, 10s.' and in 1715 we
read of Is. 8d. being paid ' For nailing up the vine tree.'
There were evidently a few well-grown trees still left
in Scotland at this date, in spite of the general belief
to the contrary, as shown by such entries as : 1703.
' Repairing tenants house in part,' ' all timber being cut in
the wood,' and again in 1709, ' To James Blakie 2 days
at Langshaw cutting timber.'
Unfortunately, little or no detail is given of seeds pur-
chased for the garden. Of vegetables, spinach, peas, and
parsley are mentioned, and of flowers anemones, ranun-
culuses, jonquils, and tulips.
A bowling-green is laid out in 1710 and 1711, at a cost
INTRODUCTION Ixiii
of £7, 3s. Id., on which the peacock purchased in 1704 no
doubt displayed itself.
The entries in regard to the enclosing of land are of
interest, the first occurring in 1699, when £4 is paid for
putting up one of the park dykes, and later on there are
entries of abatements granted to tenants for ' dykes,
eaten corns and cart roads.' The cost of building a dry
stone dyke was Is. per rood,^ as compared with about
Is. per yard nowadays, and Lady Grisell took care to see
that she got a good job, as witness the following docu-
ment : —
Be it known that whereas I George Cairncross Mason in
Selikrete being imployed by the Right Hon. Lady Grisell
Baillie on building these dry dykes at the strype being south-
ward from the towne [?] hill at Mellerstain but there being
thirty roods of the said dyke that are builded with small stones
and thereby is not {sic\ found not to be good and sufficient
I therefore do hereby bind and oblige myself to hold good and
sufficient the said thirty roods of dykes during the space of
twentie years under the paneltie of five pounds Sterling given
at Mellerstane this twentie-ninth day of Novem^" 17 hundred
and forty-three years before these witnesses Wm. Lamb and
George Carter servants to the said Lady Grisell Baillie.
(Sgd) George Cairncross.
William Lamb, Witness.
George Carter, Witness.
The most startling figures, however, in those Accounts
are those relating to the building of cot-houses. Even
assuming them to have been no better than the dwellings
described by John Ray, ' pitiful cots built of stone and
covered with turfs having in them but one room, many of
them no chimneys, the windows very small holes and not
glazed ' — even at this the prices paid for the erection of
some of them strike one as ridiculously small. In 1696
' A rood here probably meant 6 ells Scots, or 6 yards 6 inches Imperial.
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a cot-house is built for ' Liddas the Marchant ' at a cost
of £l, but it must have been a building of a superior class,
for in 1702 James Ormiston's cot house is built for 4s.,
and we find mention of others costing lis. Id., 5s., and
14s. 4d. In 1714 many of the details of building the
' new house ' are given, the cost of which amounted to
£4, 12s. 3d. This house was of a superior order, and was
glazed with ' dies losens ' — presumably small square
panes of glass instead of diamond- shaped ones.^ There
can be little doubt that the low price at which cot-houses
were erected is accounted for by the fact that the build-
ing material consisted largely of tuft divots, the supply
of which is so often referred to. Divots, no doubt, also
formed the roofing of these miserable dwellings, although
the larger houses were either slated or thatched. In
1709 there is an entry dealing with the slating of Lang-
shaw House, and in the same year we read of straw being
supplied for the thatching of Mellerstain, ' For 85 threve
oat stra crop 1707 @ 6s. to sting the house,' £2, 2s. 6d. stg.,
and of heather being got for the thatching of the Church of
Earlston, ' For hather and thicking of the church,' 7s. stg.
VI. Furniture and Furnishings
The purchases of furniture and furnishings for the
Baillies' Edinburgh house, for Mellerstain, and for their
house in London, are given in great detail, and show a
good supply of most of our modern requirements. Mr.
Henry Grey Graham, in his Social Life of Scotland in
the Eighteenth Century, refers to the lack of drinking
glasses, and, as aheady mentioned, there would appear
to have been a lack of these at Jerviswood. But
^ The farm-houses in Dumbartonshire in the beginning of the nineteenth
century are described as small buildings ' of dry stone, or at best cemented
with clay, a roof of heavy timber covered with sod and rotten straw, or ferns.'
— General View of the Agrictilttire of Dtimbarionshire.
INTRODUCTION Ixv
in George Baillie's establishment there were plenty of
single wine-glasses purchased at 5d. each, double wine-
glasses at 8d., ale-glasses at Is., water-glasses at Is., and
decanters at 4s. each. There was also a glass churn
which cost Is. 8d., and which strikes one as a curious thing.
Then there are scarlet carpets (1696), and in London oil-
cloth for the dining-room floor ; window curtains of crape,
calico, muslin, and damask ; arras hangings of plush, etc.,
which in 1712 began to give place to wallpaper, for we
read of three ' pices of stamped paper ' being purchased at
2s. 6d. each, and five ' pice varnished paper ' at 13s., and
in the following year twenty-five ' pices of stamped paper '
for £4, 6s. This must be an early use of wallpaper, but
the two following entries dealing with bells are still more
interesting : 1696. ' For a bell and cord to the door '
2s. 5d. stg., 1705. ' For a bell to the low room ' 2s. stg.
The first of these clearly indicates a hanging front door
bell instead of a tirling pin or knocker, while the second
seems to indicate a bell communicating with the servants*
quarters. As hanging bells in houses are said to have
been unknown in France until the beginning of the eigh-
teenth century, and were not introduced into England
until the reign of Queen Anne, these two entries are
distinctly worthy of note.
The decoration of rooms with mirrors was evidently
much in fashion, and there seems to have been tradesmen
in Edinburgh capable of making these, for in 1704 we read
of £3, Is. 6d. paid for a ' Chimney glass and silvering ' ;
and again in 1709, 14s. paid for ' silvering the chimney
glass.' Still the Edinburgh mirrors cannot have been
equal to the London ones, for ' Chinmey and pannel glass *
to the value of £10, 17s. lOd. was shipped to Leith in that
same year, and when the Baillies furnished their London
house wall mirrors played a most conspicuous part in its
decoration.
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VII. Lawyers and Doctors
We get from these Accounts a considerable amount of
information as to the fees paid to counsel and to agents.
In December 1694, the King's Advocate, Sir Gilbert
Elliot, gets £8, 8s. for four consultations ; in April 1696
he is paid a fee of £l, 6s. 2d. for a consultation ; in January
1696 he is paid a fee of £5, 5s. ; and in November of the
same year he is paid £3, 3s. for drawing two Deeds of
Entail of IMr. Baillie's estates. Lawyers will note that
the client consults counsel and pays his fees without the
intervention of an agent, and that the Lord Advocate
did not require, as he does now, to have a junior conjoined
with him in a consultation. It is a little difficult to com-
pare the charges of Mr. Baillie's solicitor, Mr. Chiesly, with
those prevalent nowadays, as documents and business
were of such a different nature. We do, however, learn
that in 1705 2s. 5d. is paid for drawing a Bond and two
Back Bonds, and 4s. lOd. for writing a Bond in the follow-
ing year. In 1707 John Wood is paid 4s. Id. ' for writing
2 mens tacks and a Court at Langshaw,' so we may
safely assume that solicitors were no more overpaid than
were the Judges of the Court of Session. It is interesting
to note that Jerviswood was granting tacks of his land,
a custom which did so much to improve agriculture in
Scotland, but which was at that time only just coming
into practice.
The fees paid to doctors and surgeons compare favour-
ably with those paid to lawyers. Fees of lis., £2, 2s., and
£3, 3s. are common, and the practice of bleeding must
have yielded to the surgeons a regular and remunerative
return. The ordinary charge in Scotland for bleeding a
member of the family was 9s. 8d., and for one of the ser-
vants, 4s. lOd. If the luxury of being bled from the
' Jouglar vain ' was indulged in, it was more expensive,
INTRODUCTION Ixvii
costing £l, Is. 6d. In England the bleeding was done at
the Bagnio or Baths, such entries as ' For cupping Rachy
in the Banyo 5s.' being of frequent occurrence. The
Bagnio in Edinburgh, situated in the Canongate and kept
by one Rees, which is mentioned two or three times, did
not apparently undertake surgery, but, curiously enough,
it was possible to get accommodation there for the night,
for in 1707 we read : ' For lodging 2 nights in the Bainio
and 4 times bathing ' £l, 4s. stg. Head baths could also
be obtained, for £l is j)aid to ]Mr. Knox for 'head baths.'
These Bagnios or Baths were no doubt of the nature of
Turkish Baths, and those in Edinburgh are referred to
also in the Account Book of Sir John Foulis.^
The frequency with which the Baillies took these baths
and went to watering-places, and the large quantities of
mineral waters that appear so frequently in the accounts.
' Spa Water,' ' Scarbrough Water,' ' Queen of Hungry
Water,' etc., indicate that either Lady Grisell or her hus-
band or both were troubled with rheumatism or gout.
It is also to be noted that in 1705, when ' Rachy ' is ill,
a special nurse is got for her at a fee of 5s.
Two or three entries occur relating to the syringing of
ears, which are explained by the fact that Mr. Baillie
gradually became very deaf. Indeed, his increasing deaf-
ness was the reason given for his retirement from the
Treasury.
It is impossible to leave this subject without a reference
to dentistry. Throughout the Accounts no mention is
made of the purchase of a tooth-brush, although the family
go occasionally to a dentist to have their teeth ' cleaned,'
^ The College of Physicians had a bath in the Cowgate about this time, for
which i/- stg. was charged, and ^^d. stg. as fee to the servant. This bath
was let in 17 14 to Alex. Murray, W.S., and John Russel of Bradshaw, W.S.
Looking to the fees prevailing in the W.S. profession, one is not surprised to
find two of the members trying to eke out their incomes by running a
bath.
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at which times powder is mentioned as being purchased.
Thus in 1709 : ' To teeth cleaning each half a crown and
puders ' 14s. ' 1717. To cleaning all our teeth at Bath
£l, 14s.' Visits are also paid to the dentist for still more
unpleasant purposes, as witness the entry in 1705 : ' For
stopping teeth with lead and something to clean 'em 10s.' ;
and the entry in 1717 : ' July, to Vilponta for drawing
Grisie's tooth 10s. 9d.'
VIII. Horses and Carriages
The Baillie expenses in connection with the keep of
horses and upkeep of carriages and harness in Scotland
averaged for the years 1692 to 1714 about £35 per annum,
exclusive of the wages of coachmen and grooms. As there
were certainly four coach mares,, besides hunting mares
and a cart horse, it may be taken that this figure covered
the keep of at least seven horses, and that consequently
the keep of a horse for a year was under £5. As the Baillies
bred their own horses, there are not so many entries dealing
with their purchase as one might otherwise have expected.
The highest price given for a horse is £22, 4s. 5d., paid in
1696 for a gelding. A pony for Grisie cost £3, 6s. 8d. ;
horses £10, £9, 14s. 8d., and £7 ; a mare £4, 8s. lid. Colts
are gelded at 2s., although, as Lady Grisell explains, the
usual price is Is., rumping costs Is., and bleeding, which
is of frequent occurrence, lOd. ; while stallions for the
mares cost £2, 2s. (Bath). Coach harness for a pair of
horses cost in 1705 £4, 16s., in 1702 a leather side saddle
is bought for 12s., while in 1712 ' a fine sadle to Grisie
yellow velvite trim'd with silver ' costs £13 ; a pad saddle
and furniture in 1701 costs £2, 2s., and a 'clog bag^ saddle'
and all its furniture costs, in 1704, 17s. 4d.
When the Baillies were first married, the carriage they
Saddle bag.
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owned M^as a ' berlyn,' a light carriage capable of containing
two persons, said to have been invented about forty years
before by ' Philip de Chiese, a native of Piedmont in the
service of Frederick William, Elector of Bradenburg.'^
In 1699, however, a chariot is purchased in London, whence
it is brought to Edinburgh, at a cost of £5, 3s. The price
of the chariot unfortunately is not given. Some idea of
the state of the roads is obtained from the constant mention
of purchases of glass for the chariot, and the frequency
with which new wheels have to be got. These latter cost
£5 a set, and on one occasion are bought at St. Andrews,
and on another are made by the local workmen at Meller-
stain.
The coach itself does not last long, for in 1704 it gets
such a complete overhaul that, after reading the details,
one wonders how much of the original coach was left.^
In spite of having had ' her ' so thoroughly repaired, a
new chariot is purchased and brought from London next
year. This new chariot seems to have been not altogether
a success, and must have been the subject of some com-
plaint, for Mr. Secretary Johnston writes in regard to it :
' There could be no knavery in your Chariot considering
the price of it, and since you saw it before it was covered,
the wood, as it often happens, may not have been seasoned
enough ; none but workmen can judge of that.' Although
the Baillies imported their carriages from London, it is
evident that coaches of a sort could be procured in Scotland,
for in 1707 we read : ' To King Coachmaker for helping
* A Book about Travelling, Past and Present, by Thomas A. Croal. It was
in the Berline of Baroness de KorfF that Louis XVI. and his queen attempted
to escape from France.
, ^ 1704 Oct. 26. For helping and dighting thecoch;(fi 8/, nailstothecoch 10/,
Axe tree ;^5 8/.
For a hind axe tree £ii, 6/, a pair fitchers £i, lo/.
For a transem £■},, lining the bottom ;^2, 2 rollers 6/, mending £\ i?/.
For 2 skins £\ 8/, nails to her 14/2, drink 2/ (Scots money).
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the Chariot, the money sent to Edinburgh by Francis
Newton' 1 15s.
When the family went to London, towards the close of
the year 1714, they did not take their own carriage, but
travelled by the stage-coach. It was thus necessary for
them, on their arrival in London, to purchase a coach,
which they did from one ' Mr. Baldwine,' at the price of
£55, which was paid by instalments. Instead of horsing
this themselves, they hired a coachman and two horses
at £25 per quarter. Judging from the amount of chariot
glass appearing in the London Accounts the streets of that
city were not much better than those of the northern
capital.
It will be noticed in Lady Grisell's ' Memorandum ' as
to travelling on the Continent, that when the chaises ^
arrive at Trent, ' you must put an avan train to your
Chaise,' ' you cannot travel without these fore carriages,
they not been used to drive as in Italy.'
It is evident from the directions which Lady Grisell
gives her grandsons as to the careful adjustment of the
' avan train ' that the chaises proceeded thi'ough Germany
with six wheels each. These ' avan trains ' were neces-
sary in order to provide a seat for the driver, the chaises
until Trent was reached having been di-iven by postillions,
and Lady Grisell gave directions that they are to be got
rid of at Cologne or Frankfort.
It will also be noted from the same ' Memorandums *
that it was considered hardly worth while to bring these
travelling chaises across the Channel, they being ' but
unwildy and troublesome in our country,' therefore ' sell
them for what you can get.'
* In 1693 the Scottish Parliament granted a monopoly to Wm. Scott,
cabinetmaker, to build coaches, chariots, sedan-chairs, and calashes, coach
' Ilarnish and grinding of glasses.' Before that all coaches, etc., were
imported.
2 A chaise could be bought for £2^.
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INTRODUCTION Ixxi
One word as to carts ! Mr. Henry Grey Graham, in
his Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century,
gives a description of tumbrils, which he said were
regarded as ' a triumph of mechanism when the century
was young.' He goes on to say : ' Carts were a later
institution ; and when in 1723 one carried a tiny load
of coals from East Kilbride to Cambuslang, crowds of
people, it is recorded, went out to see the wonderful
machine ; they looked with surf)rise and returned with
astonishment.' ' Yet in many parts of the Lowlands
they did not come into use until 1760.' This may have
been so in certain districts, but in Edinburgh carts capable
of carrying half a ton of coal seem to have been common
enough. In 1696 ten carts of coal are brought from Car-
berry ; coals are constantly being carted from Leith ;
in 1701 a ' cart and all that belongs to it ' is purchased for
£4 ; and in 1704 a new axle-tree is got for the cart. Both
the price paid and the last entry show clearly that the
Baillies' cart was not a tumbril, but had wheels revolving
independently of the axle-tree, and there is no reason for
assuming that it was in any way superior to the other carts
mentioned.
IX. Clothing
It is a little difficult for a mere man to form an opinion in
regard to matters of feminine clothing, and it is dangerous
to express it when formed. The first thing that strikes
one in looking through the Clothing Accounts is the change
that has taken place in the meaning of the word ' night
gown.' We find nightgowns of damask, of stained satin,
of yellow satin, of striped satin, of calico, of velvet, etc.,
all lined with various materials, and costing anything
from £l to £5. They are frequently given as presents.
George Baillie brings back ' night gowns ' from London for
his wife and daughter, and ' night gowns ' are given to his
Ixxii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
wife's sister * Jeanie,' and to his sister Mrs. Weems, costing
respectively £3 and £2, 15s. From the number that are
bought they are evidently more than dressing-gowns, and
from the fact that elaborate ones are also purchased for
INIr. Baillie himself, the term can hardly be synonymous
with ' an evening gown.' In the case of ladies, it was
probably a sort of tea-gown ; and in the case of men, a
dressing-gown for more or less public wear. It was no
doubt in this sort of ' night gown ' that Robert Baillie
was tried and hanged, and not in the garment we now
understand by the words.^
What would be now termed ' nightgowns ' are called
in the Accounts ' night clothes,' and were made of muslin
or cambric.
In the matter of underclothing, the Accounts show but
cold comfort, and it is with a sense of relief that one reads
of the occasional purchase of flannel. No doubt the
material for woollen underwear was woven at home, as
we find frequent references to the purchase of wool, some-
times bought specifically to be ' made into flanell.'
Stockings of cotton, wool, and silk are purchased at
prices ranging from Is. Id. to 14s. per pair, the finer kind
being worn over woollen understoekings. AVhen abroad,
specially thick stockings for travelling are bought, as are
also stockings of beaver skin, which cost three florins
(7s.) the pair. One would be inclined to doubt the
meaning of the word, but a few entries further on ' baver
skin gloves ' are purchased, and ' baver ' for a * peticoat
and clock,' the former costing Is. lOd. per pair, and the
latter £2, 19s. 3d. It will also be noted from the snuff-
^ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu writes in 1716: *I met the lover yesterday
going to the ale house in his dirty night gown, with a book under his arm to
entertain the club ; and as Mrs. D. [the gentleman's fiancee] was with me at
the time, I pointed out to her the charming creature ; she blushed and looked
prim ; but quoted a passage out of Herodotus in which it is said that the
Persians wore long night gowns.'
INTRODUCTION Ixxiii
boxes and handkerchiefs purchased for the ladies that
snuff was used by them as well as by the men.
On p. 203 and p. 213 will be found the trousseau
accounts of Lady Murray and Lady Binning respectively,
the bridal dress of the one, 'a sute clothes trini'd with
silver,' costing, along with her sister's dress and some
other items, £112, 8s. 6d., and of the other, ' For 25 yards
silver stuff for gown and coat,' costing £41, 5s.
A plain suit of clothes for a gentleman cost between
£4, 10s. and £7, but of course if expensive materials were
used the cost might be anything. The accessories to the
suit, such as the lace for cravats and ruffles, often cost
more than the suit itself, on one occasion, in London, as
much as £20, 5s. being spent on a cravat and two pairs of
ruffles. A muff with its case was also a necessary part of
a gentleman's equipment.
Wigs naturally figure frequently. We have campaign
wigs at about £l, 5s., long wigs at £2, 5s., and undesigned
wigs at £3, 5s. Then there are the concomitant nightcaps
of wool or double holland for keeping warm shaved heads.
Here also we notice Lady Grisell's careful hand. Nothing
is thrown away that can be repaired : ' Helping the fore-
head of a wig ' 5s. ; ' Helping a wig and shaving 8s. 7d.
stg.' ; * Turning my pophn gown ' ; ' Dying red gown
green ' ; ' Making up the old floord night gown,' etc.
X. Jerviswood's Brothers and Sisters
When George Baillie was restored to his family estates
he became responsible for the payment of his mother's
jointure of £102, 13s. 8d., and of the provisions made by
his father for his younger children, amounting to 43,000
merks or £2388, 17s. 9d. stg. Along with her other
accounts Lady Grisell kept an account of how this money
was paid away to, or for the benefit of, the beneficiaries,
Ixxiv HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
and these Accounts give us some information on a different
and not so pleasant side of eighteenth century life. It
is evident from them that Jerviswood's immediately
younger brother Archibald was not altogether a satis-
factory character. At one time or another he was reduced
to pawning his coat, his Bible, and, still more reprehensible,
his brother's watch, which various articles were redeemed
at the cost of 10s., 8s. 4d., and 12s. 6d. respectively. He
eventually lands in the Tolbooth, presumably for debt,
when we find the following entry : ' To him by Plumer
when he was in ye Tolbooth £54, 8s. Scots ' (£4, 10s. 8d.).
If this sum was paid for his maintenance, and it looks as
if such were the case, and if the expense of his board
' inside ' was in any way commensurate with his board
outside, he must have been in durance vile for some time,
as his board, lodging, and pocket-money for six months
when at liberty only cost about £10.
Evidently some sort of special arrangement had to be
made about Archibald, as a separate account is kept
for him long after his brothers and sisters have been
paid off and their names have disappeared from the
Accounts.
Just as the Accounts for Archibald cease, that is, about
1708, Lady Grisell opens an account in her ledger for
* Rachell Dundas.' No clue is given as to who this was,
but she was probably a daughter of George Baillie's sister
Rachel, who married Patrick (?) Dundas of Breistmilne.
This child apparently possessed a little money, which Lady
Grisell administered for her, and her name figures through
the Accounts for several years. She went with the family
to London, and she and Miss Menzies are occasionally sent
to the theatre together : ' 1715. Ap. 6. For a play to
Rachel Dundas and May Menzies gallarie 4s.' ; ' Two
gallerie tickets to ane opera 3s.' ; ' To Rachel Dundas for
going to a play 4s.,' etc. Looking to the small amount
INTRODUCTION Ixxv
spent on her and on her amusements in comparison with
her cousins, one is afraid she must have felt somewhat of
a Cinderella.
XI. General Remarks
Having dealt with Lady Grisell's Accounts more or less
in detail, it may not be out of place to add a word or two
upon them as a whole. In Appendix v. will be found
a statement showing the yearly expenditure under its
various heads from 1693 to 1718 inclusive, and as far as
possible giving the yearly income for the same period. The
note of expenditure has been made up from Lady Grisell's
Accounts, and may be taken as accurate, except in regard
to the figures under headings ' Pocket Money ' and ' London
Expenses.' The former one feels can hardly give the
whole of the pocket-money spent by Jerviswood, and the
latter is certainly incorrect, for Baillie was in London every
year after the Union attending to his parliamentary duties,
and there is no mention of the expenses of these visits in
the Accounts. With these exceptions, the figures give a
fair idea of the expenditure of a country gentleman immedi-
ately preceding and succeeding the Union.
The figures setting forth Baillie' s income are derived
partly from balance-sheets, which were prepared periodi-
cally every few years either by Lady Grisell or her husband,
and which give the rental of his estates together with a
note of his investments and debts, and partly from the
Records, which mention the salaries attaching to the
various posts held by him.
In considering any of the branches of the expenditure
it is always necessary to take a few years together, as
wages and accounts are often left unpaid for several years,
probably from the scarcity of coin. For instance, in
1707 ' May Menzies ' receives two years' wages ; in 1717
' John Hume Garner at Mellerstaine ' is paid his wages for
Ixxvi HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
three years ; in 1709 Torwoodlee is paid £8 for a horse
' got 10 years since,' and there are many similar entries,
although in the last case the length of delay is exceptional.
Whether it was this want of ready money, or whether it
was a legacy from his days of adversity, it is impossible
to say, but certain it is that George Baillie had in December
1695 to redeem a gun from pawn at the small sum of
2s. lOd.i
The average expenditure in Scotland for the years from
1693 to 1714, exclusive of sums spent on estate manage-
ment and expeditions to London, works out at rather
under £550 sterling per annum, and it is strange to think
of this sum being able to finance an establishment in
which the number of servants must have averaged at least
ten, and which boasted a carriage and four, besides
hunters.
This naturally raises the question as to the relative value
of money then and now, a difficult question, the answer
to which alone can enable us to compare the prices of
two hundred years ago with those of to-day, and to say
that such and such an article was dearer or cheaper then
than now. It is a problem that can be attacked in various
ways, but for the purposes of this book it is perhaps
sufficient to examine it from the charge side of the account,
that is, from a study of what a man or woman was able to
earn for labour, whether manual or mental : approached
from this side an article may be said to be dear or cheap
as its price varies to the earning capacity of the in-
dividual. If, therefore, we can find any fairly common
ratio existing between salaries and wages of the various
^ Truthful accounts not only at times give away the writer, but also are
occasionally hard on others, as the following entry in 1717 bears out: — 'To
my Lady Lockhart. lent and never pay'd £1, is. 6d.' It is hard to think of
such acts of omission rising up in judgment after so many years have
elapsed.
INTRODUCTION Ixxvii
trades and professions then and now, we shall at least
be enabled to judge by it whether any special com-
modity has increased or decreased in value from a
purchaser's point of view. Now it will be seen from
Appendix iv., which has been j)repared from the
Accounts of Lady Grisell and from other sources, and
which the Editor is well aware is far from exhaustive,
that the salaries and wages therein referred to have
increased from six- to ten-fold. It will also be seen
that the increase in the wages of domestic servants,
taking into account the cost of the clothes supplied and
the cost of their maintenance, both relatively greater then
than now, lies somewhere between the same two figures.
Let us therefore take eight, the mean of these two figures,
as representing the decrease in the power of money to buy
the services of men and women, and let us multiply by
eight the price of any article in 1707 before comparing it
with the price of to-day. The result should enable us to
judge fairly accurately whether it has increased or decreased
in value.
As long as income was spent on the employment of
labour, such as servants, tradesmen, doctors, lawyers, etc.,
our ancestors were just as well off as we are to-day. The
same may also be said in regard to one or two items, such
as farmyard produce, keep of horses, etc., but, as will be
seen from Appendix i., the cost of nearly every other
commodity was relatively much dearer then than now.
Even the staff of life, oatmeal, which costs now about 17s.
the boll, cost then about 10s., that is, it was then relatively
nearly five times dearer. This merely brings us to what
we know already, namely, that our incomes go much
further now than then, and that we are consequently much
better off.
Mention has been made of the periodical balance-sheets
Ixxviii HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
made out by George Baillie. In these Baillie valued his
landed estates at so many years' purchase, gave a list of
his investments, and a note of the debts due by him.
In 1693, Jerviswood and Mellerstain were both valued at
twenty years' purchase, but the value of the latter was raised
in subsequent statements to twenty-two years' purchase.
In 1736 the Barony of Earlston was bought from Lord
Haddington at twenty-five years' purchase, and in the
same year the superiority of some subjects in Earlston was
acquired at twenty-one and a half years' purchase. The
following is rather a curious entry in relation to land
purchase. BailHe, who had bought the estate of West-
fauns for £2000, afterwards acquired the ' Snyp Rights
upon it,' for £432, 4s. 7d., seeming thus to indicate that
they were separable possessions.
These balance-sheets show that it was not until after
the Union that Baillie began to save money, and that
these savings he generally laid out in the purchase of land.
His first balance-sheet in 1693 shows that he was worth
£8037 ; his last in 1736 that he was worth £37,724.
Although it does not fall within the scope of this paper to
treat of the effects which the Union of the Parliaments had
upon Scotland, it is a subject which naturally bulks largely
in the study of the career of George Baillie. In his own
correspondence we learn that he foresaw much of what
happened, but he probably did not see one effect, that is,
the injury inflicted upon Scotland through the practical
removal from her capital of such men as Baillie of Jervis-
wood and his father-in-law, the Earl of Marchmont. They
saw no sin in the innocent enjoyment of music, singing, and
dancing. We have already noted how George Baillie got
in the fiddlers to play to his bairns, and Lady Murray gives
the following delightful picture of her grandfather : ' As
mirth and good humour, and particularly dancing, had
alwavs been one characteristic of the family when so
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many of us were met, being no fewer than fourteen of his
children and grandchildren, we had a dance. He was
then very weak in his limbs and could not walk down-
stairs, but desired to be carried down to the room where
we were to see us ; which he did, with great cheerfulness,
saying, " Though he could not dance with us, he could yet
beat time with his foot," which he did, and bid us dance
as long as we could ; that it was the best medicine he
knew, for at the same time that it gave exercise to the
body, it cheered the mind. At his usual time of going to
bed he was carried upstairs and we ceased dancing for
fear of disturbing him ; but he soon sent to bid us go on,
for the noise and music, so far from disturbing, that it
would lull him to sleep. He had no notion of interrupting
the innocent pleasures of others, though his age hindered
him to partake of it. His exemplary piety and goodness
was no bar to his mirth ; and he often used to say none
had so good a reason to be merry and pleased as those
that loved God and obeyed his commandments.' ^
Both of these men Avere prominent Presbyterians, who
had suffered for the cause, and whose principles were
beyond suspicion. They were powerful socially, they were
powerful politically, and their example, and the example
of others like them, might have done at least a little to
counteract the bigotry and despotism of the Presbyterian
ministers, whose influence for so many years cast a shadow
over Scotland.
The Editor begs to acknowledge his indebtedness to
some notes left by the late Mr. Fitzroy Bell, into whose
experienced hands the editing of Lady Grisell's papers
had been entrusted, but whose untimely death prevented
him from making more than a beginning of what would
^ Lady Murray's Memoirs, pp. 77, 78.
Ixxx HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
have been to him a most congenial task. The Editor's
thanks are also due to Dr. Maitland Thomson, Mr. A. O.
Curie, Mr. Mill of the Signet Library, and many other
friends, for much valuable help.
He also feels that he owes an apology to Lady Grisell
for prying into books which were never meant to be seen.
If Lady Grisell is cognisant of what goes on here, she is
no doubt amazed, amused, and annoyed at the many
wrong deductions which have been drawn from the
Accounts, over which she must have spent so much time
and trouble, and which she must have thought so clear.
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK OF
LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Sundry debursments, 1692 [Scots]
Novr. 1st To David Robison vintner as £ s. d.
acount and p'^ recept . . 122 0 (>
For sevarall things from Novr. 92 to
1693 Aprill 1693 . . . . 112 13 0
Novr. 25 To Coptain Baillie ^ his interist from
Lam. 91 to Lam. 92 . . . 136 0 0
To said Coptain in full of all acct.
betwixt him and me ather by bill
or otherwise except what he has
my bond for .... 1143 14 0
To a glas to a chariot . . . 60 0 0
To payment of the cess for the year
1693 398 12 2
To James Gordon, agent for the
linin ^ manufactory and that in
full payment of my entry for ten
shars being 19s. st. per share
1693 To James Drumond per tiket
Aprill 20 To Robert Baillie ^ of Manerhall .
To Alex^ Magill in full payment of
a horss bought from him .
ditt. To Pockock, barber
May 2d To the drums ....
To drink monv to nurses
114
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120
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116
16
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24
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4
16
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11
12
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^ James Baillie, captain of the City Guard, uncle of George Baillie.
^ For an account of this company, see ' Scottish Industrial Undertakings
before the Union,' Scottish Historical Review, vol. ii. p. 53.
' George Baillie's cousin, son of his uncle, George Baillie of Manorhall,
Peeblesshire.
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1693
[Sundries]
Dito 16 For cariadges to Edinburgh .
For taking horses out of Edinburgh
Ditto 20 To Chamber rent in Mrs. Hervies
For pistols bought by my brother
Will
To the colection for the poor
To James Baillie given out by him
for me Sept. 25, 1691
To Georg Clark as p^ bill w* the
interest therof for 26 monethes
being 64 lb. 14s. .
To anuity of my howss from
Whitsunday 92 to Whit. 1693 .
To John Hunter the cess for the
terms of Whitsunday, Lambis and
Mertimas 1693, and descharg'd
for all precidings
To McKuloch for 1 inning a room in
1694 the top of Waristons Land
Febr. 4 To Mr. Will Liviston ^ at my childs
christining ....
March 18 To Mr. Will. Vetch minister at
Peebles per rect, from the collector
of the vacant stipends of Meller-
stens stipen 1693
Jun. 18 To drinkmony to Mr. Ch. nurs
August 1st Taken with me to England .
Dito 15 For streat mony and poors mony
per recept
To a barber
To a sclater for helping the howss
Taken to the country and given out
ther ....
Oct. 9 For thirling to INIellarsteans .
[Scots"
£
s.
d.
8
18
0
2
16
0
86
2
0
36
0
3
0
904 14 0
12 0 0
85 0 0
40 0 0
9 0 0
400 0 0
2 18 0
948 16 0
11 4 oj
1 16 0]
700]
-12 0 oj
3 14 01
1 A writer in Edinburgh, who appears to have collected the fees fod
various Edinburgh churches. Sir John Foulis paid his fees to him ' when I gavfi
up our names to be proclaimed.'
1695] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 3
[Sundries] [Scots]
1695 £ s. d.
For helping glas windows 17s. . 0 17 0
To anuity for the howss per recept . 12 0 0
For a coch from Barty Gibson to
Walstons 1 buriall, Mrt. 94 . 30 0 0
To my ant Huchison at sevarell
times . . . . . 30 0 0
For baithing in Rees bathing hows 4 16 0
For frawsht of 2 trunks and 2 boxes
from London . . . . 16 12 0
For survayanc mony and to
watters . . . . . 1 16 0
Jun. To ant Hutchison 7 lb. To the
Bainio in the Canigate 9 lb.
To Mr. John Vass
For helping the watch .
To Sornbegs man 10 merks .
To Georg Mosman for books :
To bringing goods from Lieth
Deer. 30 To John Smith for my expences on
the English rood, when I cam
last from London with the
Secretar^ 80 10 0
To Mr. Watson for a bill sent to
London to Jeris . . . 2100 4 0
To Georg Clark for the linin manu-
1695 factory 120 0 0
Deer. To the poll of my famely . . 30 0 0
To expences at tinding for the years
1691, 1692, 1693, and 1694 . 73 17 0
To the minister of Ersiltons for his
stipon 1694 .... 146 13 0
To Will. Trotter, scoolmaster in
Mellersteans . . . . 5 0 0
To James Massie scolmaster in
Mellerstains . . . . 10 0 0
^ Frequently mentioned by Sir John Foulis as one of his companions.
^ Mr. Secretary Johnston. Seep. 286.
16
0
0
29
0
0
8
14
0
6
13
4
50
2
0
3
6
0
4
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1695
[Sundries]
To David Hume colecter for the cess
1694 and 1695 ....
1695 To Roger Hoburn by receat .
Deer. To expences at fair and other out-
givins for years allowed to
John Wight ....
To 3 years rent allowed to Will.
Brounlies, etc. . . . .
To mending the cross .
For lousing a gun was panded
To the Linin manufactuary for
Smallits recept
To cloath for Robert Baillie at Kelso
For a coch howss to the Berlyn
To Mosman for books
G.P. To John Hay for a sword to Cap.
Baillie .....
[Scots]
£ s. d.
572 19 8
200 0 0
186 3 0
62 8 0
5 12 0
1 14 0
180 0 0
40 0 0
12 18 0
40 0 0
36 0 0
9040 12 0
Take out of the
third pag and
this. Cap. Bail-
lies, mony paid
to him to be
taken of this 2184 8 0^
It. More the
hnin manu-
factory . 414 0 0
It. More mony
payd to the
minister . 546 13 0
It. More Lon-
don jornay . 3048 0 0^
There remains besid
To Holland to my brothers
sume 6193 0 0
2847 12 0
120 0 0
Caried to page 13th S. 2967 12 0
[Scots]
£ s. d.
4 0
0
1 9
0
9 0
0
2 8
0
8 8
0
24 0
0
5 16
0
2 4
0
4 18
0
29 0
0
11 12
0
6 0
0
1696] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Sundry debursments. 1696.
January 1st To the poor per recept
To the bathell of the church
For a ring w* the Quins hair
For glasing the forroom window .
To Johnston barber
Febr. 10 To Ridpath ^ at London
23 To Mr. Liviston at Rachis christining
To the bathell of the chiuch
To charity .....
To Ms. Scot midwife .
To Ms. Hutchison
March For munting 3 swords
To John Hunter my cess preceeding
Whitt. 96 . . . . 73 0 0
To John Hunter for polmony by act
of parliment, 1695 for my whole
famaly . .
To charity .....
To Ms. Scot midwife .
Aprill To lairn cookry from Mr. Addison
To Will Johnston for books .
To Captain Baillie in balance of ane
acount ..... 217 0 0
To a man in Gray Frirs for keeping
up my childs grave . . 19 0
May 10th For payment of the sess of the year
1696
To my Ant Hutchison .
For the expence of fliting
To Ms. Guttary ....
To Hew Brown a doller
32
7
0
3
14
0
5
16
0
15
12
0
36
0
0
93
1
6
12
0
0
11
0
0
3
0
0
2
18
0
^ George Ridpath, Whig journalist, published a system of shorthand, wrote
many party pamphlets and books, was obliged to fly the country in 1713 for a
series of articles in the Flying Post and Observator. Lord Grange writing of
him after his death states that ' his memory is not savoury here. I 'm sorry he
was so vile for he once did good service. ' Frequent payments are made to him
through these accounts, and he is often mentioned in the Jarviswood Corre-
spondence.
6 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1696
[Sundries]
For drawing the blewhowse 2lb. 8, 4|
ounce silk and twisting
July To the Wast Church
To the loss of mony by crying doun
For 8 monethes sess per recept
July 19 To my jurnay to the Bath .
To Scugald/ painter 10 dollers
To expences at the fairs July 96 .
Agust 12 To Grisies dancing master for 3
monthes ....
To Scugald painter
To paper, pen and ink 10s.
To the poor at Greenlaw Church .
To severall litle things in the
country .....
To Robert Young dark to the court
To the scolmaster
Octr. 1st To Scugald for 2 pictors and frames
To James Borthick for the poor per
recept . . . . . 4 2 0
Novr. 10th To Grises reading master for a
quarter . . . . . 2 18 0
To 5 monethes cess per recept Lamb
and Merts. 96 ... 162 17 8
To the contrabusion for the fire in
the Caningate . . . . 11 8 0
For expence at the fair Oct. 96, 4lb.
8, expence at tinding 96, lllb. 8*5. 15 16 0
To acount of expences in going to
head courts and w* cess etc. . 2 4 0
To the linin manufactary . . 120 0 0
For repairing of Mellerstean mill kill
and howses .... 556 12 2
To James Drumond by Ms. Hutchi-
son 8 doll .... 23 4 0
S. 490 £.
^ See p. xxvi.
[Scots]
£ s.
d.
8 16
0
20 3
0
5 12
0
286 18
10
008 9
0
29 0
0
4 4
0
20 12
0
68 8
0
0 10
0
4 10
0
3 4
0
12 0
0
10 0
0
74 8
0
I70I]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Edenburgh, 1701. Sundry expences. Deb. to Cash.
For a big Bible and velvit pock .
For drinkmony 2 li. 18. more
o 11. . • . .
For writing a paper, 14
For poket ....
For bearing rains to the coch and
helphing her
For 7 ounce white threed 3 ti 10
To the church bathel .
For pins 19s. for a horn comb 6s.
Feb. 5 For pictors in full of all I owed
Scugald to this day .
To poket ....
For Grisies dancing a mounth with
the Franch man
For Robert Youngs sallary this year
For a bridle and 2 curpils
For a cariadge to Mellersteans
For blooding given Georg Kirton
For poket ....
For pamphlits 4s. Grisies ball
mony 1 li. 9 s .
For cuping given Georg Kirton
For a thresher 21 day without meat
For yron to the horss 1 ti. helping
the barndoors 2 li. .
For hansels in January
To Mr. Knox for head bathes
To Georg Kirton which pays him his
account in full till January 1700.
June 10 For the rent of our loft in Tolbuth
Church from Whitsunday 1700 to
Whitsunday 1701 year
To nurses 5 li 16s. to a barber to a
nurses 3 li. 4s. .
To the poor Aprill last
£ s. d.
18 0 0
5 16[sic]
0 14 0
10 0
2 10 0
3 10 0
2 18 a
14 0
96 0 0
10 0
14 4 0
6 0 0
1 17 0
10 0
5 16 0
11 12 0
1 13 0
5 16 0
12 6 0
3 0 0
23 0 0
12 0 0
76 0 0
18 0 0
9 14 6
36 0 0
8
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1701
[Sundries] [Scots]
For sweet powder £2, coch hires £ s. d.
18s. 6d., and mending the coch
Hi 4s 4 2 6
To Porterfield to perfite Rachy in
reading . . . . . 18 0 0
For Grisies quarter with Cnimbin . 19 7 0
For ane express to Dunglas 2 li 8s.
nails 6s. rubarb 9s. . . . 8 13 0
For 12 clouts to the cock 1 li 4s.
booking the mairs 6s. . . 1 10 0
For the bairenes milks going to with
[sic] ther scooll . . . 2 18 0
For shoes to a horss 8s. to sevarall
outgiving b}^ James Carrin 8 li 8 3 16 0
To poket 14s. 6d. more 6s. . . 110
For puting up the park dicks of
Jerriswood in full of all . . 9 3 4
For lime to the dick barn . . 2 0 0
For a ledger book 5 li 10 s. for sherp-
ing the milne 31i. . . . 8 10 0
To the clarks for the rights of Ballan
crief . . . . . 4 7 0
For books 23 0 0
July 8 For dreg staf cluting and grising the
coach . . . . . 1 16 0
For wire and rings to the coch, 16s.
for lokes to doors, 1 li 9s. . . 2 5 0
For tows, 10 fadour, 10s. a smith
for work 1 li. lis. . . . 2 10
For a horss to Ballancrieff 1 li 16s. 1 16 0
For a book 2 li a book 1 li letters in
England 7 li 4s. . . . 10 4 0
For snuf boxes 3 li 12s. For pins
and knitins 1 li 10 . . . 5 2 0
For a horss cumb and brush . 18 0
For horss hires to Edinburgh . 300 0 0
Octob. 1st For lead to the doors . . 0 6 0
For tows to the stair of Mellersteans 0 16 0
3701]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
9
[Sundries]
For wax and wafers
For a comb and spung
For a colt helter
For 3 bridles to water the horss
For helping the coach at Lidgert-
wood
For a blade and 2 scaburts to a
sword .....
For severall little things at the fair
.Ditto 2 For a sett of new coch whiles G.P.
60£
For 4 cariadges from Edenbm*gh .
For caring clogbags and other things
from Thorontonbridge and New-
castle to Mallersteans
For cariadges by Munga Brounlies
all cleard ....
For expences at the 2 fairs with
drumers, etc. ....
For 2 sives and 2 ridles 1 ti 10s.
suples 8s. ....
For expence of selling 20 bolls oats
To James Massie his salarie for this
year .....
For a carte bought at Mellersteans
with all that belonges to it
For Brounlies howse rent 6 ti 13s. 4d
ane emty hows 6 li 13s. 4d.
To Ms. Hume of Bogend
For suples 12s.
For the head court at Kelso
For young trees from Hundalie
To the poor at Mellersteans 2 bols
4 f[irlots] 2 p[ecks] oats at 5£ per
boll .....
For biging Thomas Leadhowse's
stable .....
[Scots]
£ s. d.
0 15 2
0 9 0
0 14 0
2 8 0
4 16 0
7 0 0
6 0 0
13 4 0
9 19 0
7 7 0
1 18 0
16 0
10 0 0
48 0 0
13 6 8
11 2 0
0 12 0
0 10 0
2 0 0
14 10 0
82 0 0
10 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1701
[Sundries]
For John Wights sallary the year
1700 . . . . ' .
To Andrew Lamb
To the contrabusion for the burning ^
To Crombin for a quarter to Grisie
To my Ant Effie 2 . . .
For hering to Mr. Johnston
For painting the chariot
For the cochmans seat 4 ti helping
harnis 2 li 2s .
For plush to J. Rainalds
To Androw Lamb
To Stewarts nurs
For repairing Mallersten tower
given out this year as by par-
ticular accumpts
For 2 poks to bibles 10s.
For a pad sadle and furnitur 25 ti. 4s.
2 huntin stoks 20 ti. . . 45 4 0
For feu duty at Jeriswood to account
of bygans . . . , 15 13 0'
[Scots]
£ s.
d.
40 0
0
0 14
6
13 0
0
17 8
0
5 16
0
31 12
0
3 12
0
6 2
0
11 0
0
0 14
0
2 18
0
767 18
4
0 10
0
S. 1700 11 6
Edenburgh, January 1702. Sundry Expences, Deb.
to Cash.
To the bathell in the church
To Adam Marchell
To my brother Archibald
For a window in the little closit
For Grisies ball mony .
To Grisies singing master Krenberg
For helping the coach .
For Shaws to Dina Ridpath .
To Mr. Mitchell .
2 18
0
2 14
6
1 9
0
0 10
0
1 9
0
g 14 4
0
0 10
0
1 9
0
0 14
6
' Fire in Lawnmarket, 28 October 1701. — Faults Accounts.
^ Youngest daughter of Lord Wariston. Died unmarried in 1715.
1702]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
11
[Sundries]
23 To Georg Kirton to accumpt upon
his letter ....
To Grisies Candlesmas mony
For lace to shirt hand
For siringing the ears
To Docter Sincklair for Rachy
To Breastmills mans weding
To a horss hire payd for Jame
Baillie ....
For caring our clogbag to New
castle payd by Breastmille
Febr. For books bought bv Mr. Knox
28 For the Acts of the Assembly got
from Mosman
For Grisies singing to Mr. Krenberg
For Grisies singing book
For James Latie the measons
coming to town
March 8 For a diamond ring-
To 2 nurses Cavers^and Mrs.Wather
burns ^ . . .
To Charly Hume
To Grisies nurs for lint sead
To Doct[or] S. Christining £2 18s. to
his nurs 2£ 18s.
To P.3 Sabath 12 Aprill
For puting one a new plate on the
coch and new clouts
To Robert Young dark his salary
for this year
To James Massie schoollmaster his
salarie for this year .
May For letters from London
To Docter Sincklair
To Hellin Garner
[Scots]
£ s. d.
21 6 a
2 18 0
2 12 6
3 0 0
28 8 0
2 18 a
1 16 0
2 18 a
34 0 Q
6 6 0
7 8 0
19 0
0 14 6
63 5 0
5 16 0
7 4 0
0 18 0
5 16 0
6 0 a
6 0 0
6 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0
17 8 0
4 7 0
^ Cavers, the seat of the Kers. Lady Grisell's mother was a Ker of Cavers.
- Mrs. Hume of Wedderburn.
' To pocket.
12 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1702
[Sundries] [Scots]
£ s. d.
To drink mony at Polwart 1 . . 2 18 0
To Marth Black lost of rent . . 13 12 6
To Munga Brunlies fathers howse
and ane emtv howse . . 13 6 8
For a pair new Wings and helping
all the coch . . . . 5 8 0
For a new poll £3 mending the ax-
tree 10s. . . . . 3 10 0
To Thomas Bell . . . . 29 0 0
20 For a siging book to Grisie . . 19 0
To Thomas Bell . . . . 2 0 0
To Will Simson in Lanark bate of
his rent 12 10 0
1 day To Mr. Kramberg, Grisells singing
master for the mounth past . 7 8 0
ditto To Mr. Crumbin Grisies playing
master for a quarter past 6 dollers
and a doller for tuning . . 20 6 0
9 To Docter Sincklair . . . 18 0 0
For letters 15s. more 5s. more £l 13s.
more £l 16 10 . . . 4 9 0
To the bairnes to goe to a bridle . 5 0 0
To Rachys ball and Grisies . 2 19 0
To Rachys dancing master . . 8 14 0
For a stra hat to Grisies ball 10s.
gloves to them £l 12 . . 2 2 0
To Sutherlands man £l 9s. cheries
at the ball 10s. . . . 1 19 0
For new tops to the coach . . 4 16 0
To St. Andras Colledg given Mr.
Pringle . . . . . 14 4 0
To Grisie to goe to a consert . 0 14 6
To Stewarts nurs and christining . 10 0 0
June 30 To Mr. Crumbin for a month to
Grisie 7 8 0
^ Polwarth, tlie village adjoining Redbraes, the seat of the Earl of March-
mont, frequently used as denoting Redbraes in these accounts.
Scots
£
s.
d.
1
4
0
366
13
4
8
14
0
18
0
0
11
2
0
1
9
0
1
6
a
5
16
0
2
0
0
1702] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 13
[Sundries]
To Crumbin for a book
To my Lord Collinton ^ for his rent
at Whitsunday 1702 and all pre-
cidings clear' d ....
To Rachys dancing master .
August 6 To the rent of the loft in the church
To Lith contrabution .
To a consurt fro Grisie
To a coller to Grisie
To brotherAndrow's^ childs christin-
ing .....
To Captain Burck the yrish man .
Ditto 26 For repairing John Wights dwelling
howse . . . . 21 10 0
To puting up James Ormistons cott
howse . . . . . 2 8 0
For mending the pinits at Meller-
steans . . . . . 1 10 0
For a bible to Gris £l 7s. mending
coch bridles 6s. ...
For a little Galaway
For letters £l 6s. 2 nurses £5 16.,
letters £1 16s. 14s. wath helping
For letters £l 6s. 5 £l 15s. 6s. 5 .
For sevarell things spent at the fair
Octo 29 For yron bought at Fairs
To a garner for seeds £l 9s. For
mending a coat house . . 3 5 0
To Androw Lamb given him for
service . . . . . 22 0 0
To the pip and drum £2 16s. Drink-
mony Green . . . . 5 14 0
1
13
0
26
0
0
11
12
0
3
17
0
10
0
0
3
14
0
^ Sir James Foulis of Colinton, raised to the Bench as Lord Colinton. It was
he who offered to prove the authenticity of the petitions to Parliament against
the Union by bringing the Petitioners themselves, which was the last thing the
Government wanted. - See p. 27.
14 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1702
[Sundries] [Scots]
To pip and drum £2 16s. for mend- £ s. d.
ing my watches £2 8. . . 5 4 0
To drink mony £2 18s. letters £l
more 10s. . . . . 4 8 0
To a raffil £14 4s. Haburn 14s. 6d.
Ms. Muir £1 9s. . . . 16 7 6
To the domany in Mellersteans 3
bolls oats . . . . 13 10 0
Novr. 20 To Crisis singing master Cremberg
£7 8 Brun for arthmetick £12 . 19 8 0
To Franch dancing master for Gris:
and Rach 17 12 0
For a flute £6 a quarter with Crum-
bin 6| doll.
Deer. 30 To Mr. Knox for books
To James Massi this year
25 1
0
20 0
0
15 0
0
S.1148 17
6
Edenburgh, January 1707. Sundry Accounts.
Deb. to Cash.
For mounthes at the violl to Grisie
with Sinckolum
For mending her violl
To Mr. G. B. nurse
For letters £2 10s., 6s., 7s., £4 4s.,
£211s., lis., 5s.,7s. .
To Thomson writting master for
Rachy one mounth .
For chair heir ] 4s. 6d., £3 Is., £1 12s.,
lo** • • • • •
To Montroses nurs £3 5s., Marrs
£2 18, Marrs £2 18s.
For Defos book ^ £l 10s. gune
powder 14s. .
12
0
0
2
0
0
2
18
0
11
1
0
2
18
0
5
14
0
9
1
0
2
4
0
• Defoe's book in support of the Union.
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 15
[Sundries] [Scots]
£ s. d.
To Docter St. Clair for Grisie . 28 8 0
To drinkmony in a shipe by
Grisie . . . . . 19 0
For servants drinkmony at Les/y ^ 14 14 0
To John Steall singing master, for 2
mounthes to Grisie . . . 24 0 0
To a raffile for herpsicords by
Grisie . . . . . 14 4 0
For gunn puder . . . . 0 6 0
For shoeing horses by Tam Youll . 2 0 0
To drinkmony at Kinross ^ £2 18,
4 horses 3 servants 2 nights . 6 18 0
To drinkmony at Dupphn ^ a f ourt-
night . . . . . 9 0 0
To drinkmony at Lesly £3 18, 4
hors, 3 servants 2 nights £3 12 . 7 10 0
For crosing Quensf erry £1 4s. crosing
from Kingoren £2 12s. . . 3 16 0
For vizicater plasters 14s. . . 0 14 0
To Thomas Bellsson £l 9s. . . 19 0
To a man to goe to Rickerton ^ twise
16s. 0 16 0
May For paper 9s. 9s. was [sic] 8s. gilt
paper 9s. wax 6s. . . . 2 10
For mending sadle graith £2 7s. . 2 7 0
To hoboys £l 9s. drinkmony 6s. Ms.
Carr £2 18s 4 13 0
To the bairens po: £3 3s. Is. 8d. . 3 4 8
For drinkmony at the Reath ^ . 3 12 6
To May Minzies to buy gloves . 1 16 0
For J whit satin for the bairenses
satin pice . . . . 12 6
1 Seat of the Earl of Rothes.
- The residence of the Earl of Morton or of John Bruce of Kinross.
^ Seat of Earl of Kinnoull.
■• Probably Riccarton near Edinburgh, the seat of Robert Craig, advocate.
■■^ Seat of the Earl of Melville.
16 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1707
[Sundries] [Scots]
For silks to it 6s. nails threed to the £ s. d.
tent Is. . . . . . 0 7 0
For silk to make a purs and strings,
13s 0 13 0
To La: Marrs footman 10s. . . 0 10 0
For drinkmony twise at Gather
House and groom . . . 7 5 0
For Londan journay in his poket
April 1st 50 guinys . . . 710 0 0
For to answer bills to London £103
str. more .... 897 0 0
To the Docters Pitcarin/ Dundas,^
St. Clair,3 Bailie . . . 170 8 0
To Baillie for 3s. blooding and to his
man . . . . . 21 15 0
To Ms. Haliwall £1 12s. 6d. lamb
10s. Monros lad 10s. . . 1 12 6
For tickets to Steals consurt . 7 2 0
For nails to the coch £l 17s. oyl to
chair 14s. 6 . . . . 2 11 6
To new traces and other things to
the traveling coach got from
Brutherstons last year . . 30 0 0
For a new male pillion 12s. girthes
and mendnig the sadles when I
went to Dupplin
To poket May 18th
For a handcurcher to May Minzies
To Crumbin for a quarter throwgh
bass to Grisie 2 guinys . . 25 16 0
To the Marques of Tweddels groome
for the coch mares . . . 5 16 0
For letters 10s. 10s. 10s. 5s. paper
18s 2 13 0
2 2
6
0 10
0
1 9
0
^ The famous Dr. Archibald Pitcarne, physician and poet.
2 Dr. Alexander Dundas, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians,
Edinburgh.
^ See p. 256.
1707]
OF LADY GEISELL BAILLIE
[Sundries]
17
May To chair man £l 10s., 16s., 14s. 6d.
For mending window in pairt of
Collintons rent
June 6 For 3 mounthes writting Rachy
with Thomson and 12s. for
pens . .
For letters 10s. .
For dresing the garden, to Wear in
Hariots work .
For 2 mounth to Grisie with St
Culume on the vyoll, etc. .
For a Bible to John Harla £l 10
For covers to books 15s. wafers
2s. 4d. poket 6s.
Mellerst. For mending Grisies watch .
June 10 For a lock to the childrens room
For ane express from Edinburgh
Xij oS. . . .
For Androw Lams expences at
Langsha, etc. .
July 2 To Tam Youls weding .
To drinkmony at Boughtrige, etc
For letters pay'd by Ms. Monro
July 22d For ane express to Mellerstaines
sent by Kersland ^
To P. at Earleston, July
To poket £1 10s. .
To the fair 18s. .
For John Brouns house
To Widow Yellas
To John Boe for puting us [? up] his
house .....
For Androw Brownlies house rent
[Scots]
£
s.
d.
2
0
6
3
11
0
9
6
0
0
10
0
6
0
0
15
3
0
1
10
0
1
3
4
3
0
0
0
8
0
2 8 0
10 0
3 14 6
3 7 0
8 8 0
2 4 0
36 0 0
1 10 0
0 18 0
6 13 4
3 16 0
2 0 0
6 13 4
^ John Ker of Kersland, Ayrshire. The head of the Cameronian party. He
intrigued with both Whigs and Jacobites, and was no better than a government
spy. At this time he was willing to sell his influence either for or against the
Union as might best pay him.
B
18
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Sundries]
For puting up Androw Brownlies's
house in pairt ....
For mending the coch harnis by
Androw Dods ....
For ane express to Grange Muir ^ to
Rob: Baillie ....
To a Councell post
Aug. 26 For letters payd by Ms. Monro
To Grisie Monro
[1707
[Scots'
£
s.
d.
0
6
8
0
10
0
1
16
0
0
14
6
2
2
0
1
10
0
Lady G. Bailhe.
For lodging 2 nights in the Banio
and 4 times bathing .
For drinkmony £3 4s. drink, etc.
For chairs ....
To Mr. Knox apothicars account
For silks for the childrens satine
pice Ms. Miller
For helping the nurses house payd
a wright in Fanns
To Ann Faa 12s.
To Docter Pitcarn 3 guinys
To Docter Dundas 3 guinys
To John Baillie one guiny
To Francy Easton for blooding
To a coach to Edinburgh 12sh. 6d
To Docter Dundas's man
To drinkmony at Gather
For a horse to Gather .
Sepr. 12 To Do. Abernathy 2 guinys a
21s. 6d
14 To Doc. Abernathy a guiny
To Telfoord, cherurgione, 2 guinys
For 3 snuf milnes £4 .
14
8
0
2
8
0
1
9
0
46
0
0
e
3
4
12
0
Ll
3
0
0
0
12
0
38
14
0
. 38
14
0
12
18
0
2
18
0
7
10
0
2
0
0
5
16
0
1
4-
4
0
. 25
16
0
12
18
0
25
16
0
4
8
0
Seat of George Baillie's brother-in-law.
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 19
[Sundries] [Scots]
To Rob. Hope £3, docters man £ s. d.
£1 10 4 10 0
Sep. 27 To Docter Abernathy a jacobos and
a guiny . . . . . 28 10 0
To all expences of puting up the loft
in Erilston Church . . . 166 0 0
For puting up the uter cattle rack
etc. in the house by James Blakie 6 0 0
For shoeing the horss at Mellersteans
by Pate Newton from Sep. 23,
1706, to Sep. 29, 1707 . . 13 4 0
To James Duncon in Kelso payd by
Pat Newton 14 years agoe . 2 0 0
Sep. 29 To Troter in Kelso for mending
sadles . . . . . 3 14 0
Ditto To Pringle in Kelso cherurgion his
account . . . . . 23 0 0
For a good strong bridle £l 2s. for
head steels, etc. £l 12s. . . 2 14 0
For letters payd Ms. Monro when I
went away . . . . 1 10 0
Sep. 30 For yron to shoe the horses since
Sep. 30, 1706 . . . . 6 14 0
For paper 10s. tows for the box with
plate, etc. . . , . 0 17 6
For cariing 2 cariages and a clogbag
to Newcastle . . . . 12 0 0
For Coltcrooks vicarage 1706 paid
Mr. Gowdy . . . . 10 0 0
For repairing Androw Brounlies
house 4000 divids £2 8s. . . 2 8 0
To expence last winter by Androw
Lamb . . . . . 9 14 6
For hay rakes 18 : suples 9s. mend-
ing stable door . . . 1 18 0
To pip and drum, July fair . . 2 18 0
To Androw Brounlies house puting
up 6 13 4
20 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Sundries]
For Rob. Dods house .
To Androw Lam 3 akers land
To loss on Georg Trumbles house
3 years rent ....
To the nurss house rent
Sep. 31 For puting up the Hall House pay'd
out for Widow Wight
To James Massy scoolmaster in
Mellerstains his sallary payable at
IMartimas 1707
To James Miller, glazer, for a years
at Mellerstains ....
To Ms. Mean ....
For a pair sods to Docter St. Clairs
lady .....
To John Frazar he gave out at
London .....
Oct. 2 To Pegie M'Kinzie £6 14s. .
To Isabell Dippo
To King, coachmaker, for helping
the chariot the money sent to
Edinburgh by Francis Newton
For letters £l 10s. £2 10 paid Francy
Newton in full
To Tam Robisone in a year keeping
up the Park 2 fous bea[n]s
Oct. 3 ^ For binding books to the ministers
For Acks of Parliment
For the news £l paper £l 14s. more
A. 4 o« • • • • •
For rubans to Peggy M'Kinzy
For binding the operas 14s.
For shoeing the horse chariot rent
etc. payd to Barty Gibson in full
of all accounts
[1707
Scots]
£
s.
d.
3
0
0
40
0
0
24
0
0
3
13
4
8
12
0
10
0
0
4
18
0
1
9
0
1
16
0
6
0
0
6
14
0
2
0
0
8
0
0
4 0
0
2 0
0
3 14
0
2 0
0
3 11
0
5 15
6
0 14
0
54 0
0
The last Scots Parliament met on this clay.
I7I0]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
21
[Sundries] [Scots]
To John Baillie, cherurgion, for £ s. d.
drogs from to October
3d, 1707 . . . . 158 0 0
To Docter Trotter , . . . 12 18 0
Oct. 4 To drinkmony at Polwarth ^ . 2 18 0
To the pip and drum at this
moneths fair . . . . 2 18 0
To Mr. Gowdy the vicarage of
Coltcrooks this year . . 10 0 0
For repairing Mellerstaine Tour and
other work there . . . 241 19 2
3386 6 8
Take out the London journey . 1607 0 0
1779 6 8
Mellerstaines, January 1710. Sundry Accounts.
Deb. to Cash.
[Sterling]
To Ms. Rume ^ for 9 weeks and 5
nights chamber rent at 3sh. 4d.
per night and drinkmony . 11 17 2
For coch and chaire hire at Edin-
burgh in abovesaid time . . 12 0
For drinkmony at severall places
and to nurses .
For compases to Grisie
To Mr. Crombine half a moneth
To Mr. M'Gie for teaching Grisie
geographic . . . . 116
For tickets to consorts 7s. raffles
£1 10s. .
For writting paj^ei* and letters
See p. 12. 2 See p_
2 6
8
0 2
6
0 10
0
•
1 17
0
•
0 11
0
xxviii.
22
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1710
[Sundries]
To Robert Morton and Ms. Riddle
To the Lady Mannerhall ^ when her
son died ....
Febr. To John Baillie surgeon in full of all
accounts ....
To a man from Edinburgh to tune
the spinits and virginells .
For boat fraught at Rutherfoord ^
To Doct. Abernathys man
To Piter Brown for measuring of
land 2 days
For letters ....
May 24 For drinkmony at the Hirsill ^ nurs
10s. 9d. house 6s.
For powder and lied
For drinkmony . . .
For Spaw watter
For letters ....
To Docter Gibson
For drinkmony at sundry times
To Docter Abernathys nurs
For yron for uses in the house
To the Marques of Tweddels groom
half a guiny
To the two servants caried over the
4 mares 4 days
May 29 For the cariages of two boxes from
London ....
For bringing my letters from Ber
wick ....
For letters 5d. lOd.
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 5 0
10 0
2 2 3
0
15
6
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
5
0
0
2
6
0
16
9
0
2
0
0
12
0
5
11
2
0
5
6
1
1
6
0
18
0
0
5
0
0
3
0
0
10
9
0
4
0
1
6
2
0
8
0
0
1
3
^ George Baillie's aunt by marriage.
^ A ferry across Tweed at the old village of Rutherford, still in use.
* Seat of the Earl of Home. Lady Grisell's eldest and favourite brother,
Lord Polwarth, married for the second time Lady Jane Home, daughter of the
Earl of Home, * Bonnie Jean o' the Hirsel.'
[Sterling!
£
s.
d.
1
1
0
0
5
0
0
5
0
7 10
6
0 5
0
0 5
0
0 5
0
0 3
6
1710] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 23
[Sundries]
June 8 For drinkmony at Calder ^ .
To Rutherfoords cochman and
Newtons ^ .
To my sister Julian ^ at Calder
To Adam Mershall for the filly
bringing . . . . . 0 5 0
July 6 To Docter Abernathy when Rachell
had a fever ....
To the Docters man
Aug. 30 To musick .....
For letters 2 sh. 6d. an express 2s. 6d
For ane express from Edinburgh
For expresses to Edinburgh three
times . . . . . 0 3 0
Sepr. 30 To Docter Gibson for blooding in
the jouglar vain . . . 116
For capris and gass for ink . . 0 12
For cariing letters Is., 2s. 6d., Is.,
3sh. 8 0 8 2
For drinkmony at Boughtrige and
Ridbreas* . . . . 0 10 0
For cariages by Alexander Wood of
books . . . . . 0 2 6
For sundry things to the house
given out myself . . . 0 6 0
To the ho boys . . . . 0 2 6
For 2 nights lodging in Seatons
house . . . . . 0 5 0
To John Carrs nurse 5s. other drink-
mony 2s. . . . .070
^ Seat of Lord Torphichen.
^ Lady Grisell's aunt, Julian Hume, married Richard Newton of that Ilk.
^ Julian Hume, Lady Grisell's sister, eloped in 1698 with Charles Bel-
lingham, a man of no means or position. She was no doubt staying at this
time with her sister Jean, who married James, seventh Lord Torphichen, in
1703.
* The seat of the Earl of Marchmont.
24 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Sundries] [Sterling]
For teath cleaning each half a £ s. d.
crown and puders . . . 0 14 0
For letters Is. 4d. paper 3s. letters
3s. . . . . . .074
To Sir James Cockburn of Ryslaw . 0 10 0
To contrabution for Irish meeting
house . . . . . 0 14 0
To a nurse for Rachy at Edinburgh,
July 0 5 0
To Pittcurs 1 nurse . . . 0 5 0
For expence of letters cariing . 0 10 0
For powder and sope Is. more 1 sh.
Baillie, surgen's man 2s. 6d. . 0 4 6
To fidlers 2 sh. 6d. . . . 0 2 6
To Litildanes ^ nurse and midwife 0 10 0
To Ms. Robertuns nurs 5s. . . 0 5 0
To Medina ^ picture drawer for
Jerriswoods my oun and the two
bairens's pictures drawing . 20 0 0
For cariing letters to Mintto,* etc.
5s. drinkmony for lodging . 0 9 6
Aug 12 For Grisies proclamation in the
church to . . . . 116
To the door of the house on the 16 . 0 10 0
To her poket on the 17th . . 116
To her she gave John Baillie
Murrays servant . . . 2 3 0
To Prestonhalls ^ servant for useing
their rooms . . . . 0 5 0
To poket given Grisie . . ; 2 0 0
To poket 10 sh 0 10 0
For a moneths chamber rent in Ms.
Burns . . . . . 8 11 0
To the fidlers . . . . 116
^ Haliburton of Pitcur. '•^ Kerr of Littledean Tower on Tweed.
* See p. xxvi. * Belonging to Sir Gilbert Eliott.
* Roderick Mackenzie of Prestonhall, raised to the Bench as Lord Prestonhall.
His wife was a sister of George Baillie's mother.
3710] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 25
[Sundries]
Novr. 8 To expence at Ginelkirk ^ comeing
in £l going out 6 sh
To drinkmony at Brughton ^
For snuff and tobaca to cary to
London .....
For a nights lodging at Linton ^
For 6 weeks chamber rent in Ms.
Rumes * at 5s. per night .
For chaire hyre 6 sh. more 2s.
To Androw Lambs expences at
fairs and head courts 1710, 6s.,
more Is., 2s., 2s. 6d. .
To the pyp and drum for 2 fairs
To Mr. Steall for Grisie
For letters by post, etc., per Francy
Newtons account
To Thorindick 18s. for a horse to
Greenlaw 6s. .
To Ms. Richison for her rooms
For cariage of a box from London .
. July To a servant of the Banck for
bringing dook {tlege, doun] the
books . . . .
For fraught of the Spaw watter, etc.
For paper Is. and caring letters
befor the election 12
For the Acts of Parliament .
For 2 years news papers pay'd
Francy Newton
For a goun and coat to May Minzies
at Grisies marriage .
To George Newton for the cart road
in the Greenlands
Sterling'
£ s. d.
16 0
1 13 6
0 11
0 11
0
6
10 10
0 8
0
0
0 11
0 9
0 12
6
4
0
2 3
6
1 4
0 8
0 8
0
0
0
0 2
0 16
6
9
0 13
2 9
0
6
0 5
8
8 0
0
0 5
0
^ Channelkirk, a place about half-way between Edinburgh and Mellerstain.
^ Belonging to Sir David Murray of Stanhope, Bart, whose eldest son married
.Lady Grisell's daughter Grisell.
^ A village lying between Jerviswood and Mellerstain.
* See p. xxxviii.
26 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Geordy Newton more for that £ s. d.
road a fou oates . . .034
For 3 concave chimnys and 120 foot
hewin lintells and rebets for
Lighting the House hewin by
James Brady 10s. chi[mney] ; 4d.
foot 3 10 0
For Wright, measone, and glazier
work, etc. about the House . 26 0 0
For bring stons from Greenlaw to
J. Ormston at 5d. per day . .050
To the nurses house rent 16s. 1 j^^d.
John Browns lis. lx\d. . .17 2^^
To the scoolmasters salary this year 0 16 8
S. 158 09 05^^
Mellerstaine, Janry. Account of Sundry Expences. 1714.
For mending the fine virginall at
£
s.
d.
London ....
12
10
0
For Fraught of them cariing
out of Edn ....
2
0
0
For the church Bathel at Edn
0
2
6
To Collonell Hamilton 5s. to
others 4s. 6d. more
0
9
6
For a Book ls.4d. another Is. .
0
2
4
For cleaning pistols Is.
0
1
0
To Mrs. Howie
0
10
0
Edn To Robert Mandersons doughter
Grisells nurs ....
0
5
0
March 7 For booking my seal in the Gold-
smith's Chope
0
1
0
10 For Poket Tolbooth church
1
4
0
To Drinkmoney at Lienhouse
1
0
0
0 10
0
0 4
0
0 1
0
1714] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 27
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Drinkmoney at Calder ^ and
to coachman and stal:)les
To powder and ball 4s.
For letters 6d. more 6d. .
To Poket Is. 6d. drinkmony at
Ridbreas . . . . 0 2 0
To Mary Plumer Is. Abernathys
Nurs 5s 0 6 0
For a Prognostication 3d. . . 0 0 3
To Hillons ^ Nurs 5s. Kimergham ^
6s. Dunglas ^ 10s. . . . 110
For Horse at Berwick 4s. to
Adam Mershall for the Mares 0 5 0
To Drinkmoney at Ridbreas 5s.
Nickle Is. .
To the Nurs at Dunglas
To the fidlers two times 3s. 6d.
To Drinkmoney at Dunglas the
2d time 5 garner 2s. groom 2s. 0 9 0
For letters 6d. more 6d. more
6d 0 2 6
For James Duncans holding court
at Langshaw . . . 0 4 0
May 15 To John Walker for the chair rent
a year ....
To the pys and drum July fair .
For fairins and for fruit
For a coat to Baillie Youll 4s.4d.
makeing 8 .
To Mr. Anderson the Minister, etc.
For a book ....
To Hary Fouls the Rent of Collin-
0
6
0
0
5
0
0
3
6
0
5
0
0
4
0
0
8
0
0
5
0
0
3
6
0
1
0
^ Lord Torphichen's. See note, p. 23.
* Johnston of Hilton. Lady Grisell's grand-aunt, Sophia Hume, married
Joseph Johnston of Hilton.
' Belonging to Lady Grisell's brother Andrew Hume, raised to the Bench as
Lord Kimmerghame.
'' Anne Hume, Lady Grisell's sister, married Sir John Hall of Dunglass.
[Sterlin
g]
£ s.
d.
33 6
8
1 4
0
0 5
0
4 4
6
0 11
0
3 10
0
0 11
0
28 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1714
[Sundries]
tons House the last year we was
in it and which clears all due
him .....
For a lb. Rubarb
For a lb. sealing wax
For a gun and 30 swords 4£ pack-
ing 4s. 6d.
For cariing letters and letters
Aug. 8 For expences of going to Wooler
For cariage of boxes from London
For expence of coming by sea to
Newcastle . . . . 3 7 0
For 3 horses from Newastle to
Mellerstaines
To Docter Gibson
For chamber rent at Edn 2s.
6d. .....
To Smelholm boge .
To Drinkmoney at Minto and
Newton ....
ToRutherfoordboat and cochman
For 29 Guns and Bagginets . 18 4 1 3^
For a barrill Powder weighe 7|
stone ....
To James Pringle surgen account
To Docter Gibson's surgen ac-
count . . . . . 4 11 9
To John Craw's bill at the last
Election . . . . 7 10 0
For Powder for shooting craws,
To the fidlers ....
For carting a box from London .
To ]Mr. M'gie ....
To Pyp and drum octr fair 4s. for
fairins l£ 4s. . . . 18 0
To Drinkmoney at Kimergham
7s. Ridbreas 7s. . . . 0 14 0
2
5
0
1
1
6
0
2
6
0
10
9
0
14
0
0
2
0
18
4
1;
3
6
8
4
0
0
0
8
8
0
5
0
0
9
0
1
1
6
I7I4]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
29
[Sundries]
To Drinkmoney at Stewartfield,^
To Drinkmoneyat Longformakus^
and Horses ....
To David Weems ^ a guinv his
horse 2s. 6d. ....
To Poket at Earlston
To the Bathel of Earlston.
To Nans Walker and Sandy Broun
To Poket Is. .
To Piter Broun for measuring the
Hill . . .
To Drinkmoney Redbreas .
To Drinkmoney Dunglas .
For shiping goods 2s. more 15s.
For Drinkmoney Ridbreas
For Account books from Mr.
Mcgie .....
To Mr. Mcgie for teaching book
keeping
To James Kilpatrick
Breast Mills doughters *
For a chair
To Poket Earlston, etc.
To Jean Lambs Bridle
To Poket Servante, etc.
Sterling]
£ s.
d.
0 8
6
0 10
0
1 4
0
1 14
0
0 2
6
0 6
0
0 1
0
0 5
Q
0 17
6
0 18
6
0 17
0
0 5
0
10 0
3 2
0
1 1
6
0 5
0
0 2
0
1 0
0
1 10
0
0 5
0
London
Deer. 18 For Servants Tam j^oull and Katie
Hearts fraught to London
victualls furnisht by the Skiper 1 10 0
To Tam and Kate when they went
a shore, etc. . . . . 0 10 0
For 5 places in the stage Coach
from Edn to London . . 22 10 0
^ Now known as Hartrigge. Seat of Col. John Steuart, killed by Sir Gilbert
Eliott of Stobs in an election brawl in 1726. ^ Seat of Sir Robert Sinclair,
See p. 45.
■* George Baillie's nieces.
30 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1714
[Sundries] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For booking money . . . 2 0 6
For cariing bagage one the coach
over and above 20 lb. weight for
each of us . . . . 2 7 0
For our expences on the road for
ourselves five and litle Robie
Pringle ^ 13 days from Dunglas 10 0 0
For James Grive's expence and
the horses on the road . . 1 17 6
For shoes to the coach mares at
Dunglas to Mouse Mare same
road on, basts and cords to
trunks etc. . . . . 0 14 0
For fraught of goods from Berwick
in three ships . . . 3 8 0
30 For warfage porters carts to the
Lodging etc. . . . 19 1
For fraught of 4 half barrills
herins . . . . . 0 6 0
For warfage bale and cariing to
the Lodgine . . . 0 2 6
For fraught of boxes from London
in Aug: last and cariages . 2 0 0
For 8 quare white paper gote last
sommer . . . . 0 4 8
For squaring and binding 2 count
books .....
For a spectickle eye Is. letters 2s.
For puting the Coach in currant
For a cover to Grisies bible 8d. to
her Is. .
For letters Is.
For binding the Atlas's
To John Walker for the chairs rent
till White 1715 . . . 0 18 4
' See p. xl.
0
8
0
0
3
0
0
3
6
0
1
8
0
1
0
0
7
0
1715] OF LADY GRISSEL BAILLIE 31
Sundries
Sterling]
£ s.
d.
To Nurses House rent
0 15
0
To Will Mills Housereut .
0 5
6A
To John Gifferts house rent
0 5
0
£183 8
6
•
London,
• •••••
January 1715. Sundry Accounts, Deb.
•
12 day
For 4 weeks House Rent payd Mr.
Broun ....
14 0
0
To Grisell Robison .
0 10
9
For the Mous Mare stabling 19
nights shoes Is.
1 11
0
To Docter Shien
1 1
6
To Rachy a play
0 5
6
For letters 4s. Ms. Boyds childs
toy 2s. 6d. ....
0 6
6
26
For a chair and coaches since we
came .....
1 10
0
To poket ....
0 3
6
For a coach Is. more 2
0 3
0
To Margrat Robison
1 1
6
To cards lost at Dutches Mon-
troses 1 ....
0 5
0
To the French Mistres Taucour
for a moneth
0 10
0
To Mrs. Wests Nurse
0 10
9
To Captain Kirton ^ for lose on
Raches Lottary Ticket
1 1
6
For 300 Limes and 90 frute trees
went to Scotland the frute trees
was 4£ Is. 6d. the limes
4 1
6
For caring them to Greenwage to
a ship for Berwick
0 7
0
^ See p. 282.
- Captain Kirkton, R.N., son of the Rev. James Kirkton, and thus a first
cousin of George Baillie. There are a good many of his papers at Mellerstain.
32 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Sundries] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For Goldbaters Lieff Is. . . 0 10
For a french book 2s. a psalm
book 2s.6d 0 4 6
febr. 22 For the Elections last Parliment
and this new election giveing
in the two returns to the Crown
Clark . . . . . 0 9 0
For a hood and Mantle to Ann
Kenadyi ... . 100
For 8 plays at a croun to my Nices
and doughters
For a book ls.6d.
For News Powder and oyl pay'd
John Baillie he gave out
For Mastregs C oiler .
To Major clelands Nurs
For 3 laches 3s.
March 8 For coach's and chairs to this
day .....
For 2 losens to a window
To John Scote for phisick and
wateing on me . . . 116
9 To Mr. Broun for 2 Moneth Lodg-
ing . . . . . 28 0 0
For the Lady Mannerhall . 0 10 0
For 300 Lime Trees sent to Meller-
staine and cariing . . 5 0 0
For a watch and gold chean to
Rachie from Massie . . 27 0 0
ditto To Mr. Dumbar Franch Master for
a Moneths teaching . . 116
For Straff ords try ell 16sh. staf-
fords tryell 2s. 6d. . . 0 18 6
To Mr. Isack for a Moneths
Dancing to Rachy . . 3 4 6
2
0
0
0
1
6
1
0
0
0
1
6
0
5
0
0
3
0
1
12
0
0
2
6
^ Probably the daughter of Lady Kennedy afterwards mentioned.
I7I5]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
33
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Monsieur La fever Mr. Isacks £ s. d.
violer a moneth . . . 0 10 9
To poket 2s., coch 2s., Ink 2s. . 0 6 0
For dying Ms. Turnbuls goun 4s.,
lineing and makeing 19s. . 13 0
To Monsieur Isack a Moneth for
Rachels Dancing and La fever 2 14 3
To Mr. Dumbar French Master 116
Ap. 6 To Mr. Broun for 4 weeks Rent 14 0 0
Ap. 20 To Mr. Massys man . . . 0 10
For a play to Rachel Dundas and
May Menzies, gallarie . . 0 4 0
For Thomas a Kempes . . 0 4 0
For letters Is. Is. 6d. more 4s. Is. 0 7 6
For 6 weeks news to July 1 st 9s . 2d . ,
more lis., Is. 6d. . . . 0 11 7
For coaches 4s., chairs 7s. Is., Is.,
Is., Is., Is., Is., Is., 2s. 6d. . 10 6
For Acts of Parliament . . 0 3 0
To Chair men for removeing our
goods to the new house 6s. 6d.
more 12s. . . . . 0 18 6
For a play to Rachy . . 0 5 0
For play Captain Murrays Lady 0 10 0
To George Drumond . . 116
To Andrew Kenady ^ . . 2 3 0
To Lady Kenady 2 . . . 3 0 0
To Mr. Baldwine Coachmaker in
paint 25 . . . . 25 0 0
To pamphlets Is., church Bethell
4s 0 5 0
^ Probably the son of Lady Kennedy.
^ Perhaps Jean Douglas, daughter of Captain Andrew Douglas of Mains, R.N.,
and wife of Sir John Kennedy of Culzean, Bart., two of whose sons afterwards
became Earls of Cassillis. She had twenty children, fourteen of whom died
young. Amongst the six who survived was a daughter Anne, who married John
Blair, younger of Dunskey. It is quite likely that she had a son Andrew
amongst those who died young.
34
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1715
[Sundries]
To Mr. Dumbar French Master for
a Moneth
To Johny Stewart for a play
To John Simmerall .
For a moneth Lodging payd Mr
Broun
To tax for the death of the Cows
For a French book .
To poket
To plays for Grisie and Rach
To Ms. Hurnes litle Girle .
May 28 To Captain Clivelands coachman
For a pair orrs to Richmond and
back again to London .
For Morklet rols and wt Mrs.
Cockburn ....
To Mr. Hays for 2 coach horses a
quarter the 9 May 25 .
To Mr. Hays for 2 horses to
Twittenhame
To a Rafle given John Scote
For 2 reports to send to Scotland
To Rachy of poket money
June 21 For marled paper 2d. a sheat
For scouring all the wanscote of
I new house at 20d. a day with-
out meat ....
For white washing the House Is.
a
roof .....
For news prints Is. 6d.
For the last two moneths of our
lodging payd Mr. Broun
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
116
0 5 0
3 4 6
14 0 0
0 5 0
0 2 0
0 10
0 10 0
0 2 6
0 5 0
0 7 0
0 2 0
25 0 0
0 10 0
0 10 0
0 7 0
116
0 0 6
0 17 0
0 15 0
0 16
28 0 0
^ The tax here mentioned was no doubt imposed to meet the expense
incurred in connection with a cattle plague which broke out in London and the
neighbourhood in the preceding autumn, when many thousands of cows were
destroyed by orders of the magistrates, the owners receiving compensation at
the rate of 40s. per cow. — Caleiidar of Treasury Papers.
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 35
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Mr. Broun for spoyling his £ s. d.
furnitur . . . . 0 10 2
June 24 For Repairing the Rooff of the
new house . . . . 0 2 6
For 50 Reports of the secret
Committy to send my father . 15 0
For stoping Grisies Teeth with leed
and some things to clean 'em 0 10 0
To James Minzies to begine a
stock ....
1
1
6
To Mr. Isack for 3 moneth and
1
to Mr. La fever
8
12
0
For Andersons pills .
0
2
6
For drinkmoney at Twettenham
to all the servants
1
7
6
To Richmont ball with Mrs. Boyd
1
and bairens ....
0
4
6
July 30
For newspapers Is. 7d. Aug: 3s.
lOd. . . . . .
0
5
5
To Lady Buts 1 Nurs
0
5
0
For painting the house by Muns at
3d. a yeard
5
7
6
For Glazing the windows l£ 5
cleaning them all 10s.
1
15
1
The Smith account of Reparations
to the house
1
5
0 ;
Aug. 7
To Earls Mitting House .
0
10
9 :
To lose at Carts
0
9
0
For a necklace hook to May
Menzies ....
0
1
0
To Dickson joyner for reparations
OSIl* • • • • •
0
5
0
To John Colecot joyner for shelf to
the house, etc.
0
12
i
0
To Mr. Burnets servant for
bringing the picturs
0
5
0 i
1
^ Lady Bute, Lady Anne Campbell, only daughter of first Duke of Argyll, and
wife of James, second Earl of Bute.
36
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1715
[Sundries]
10 To Mr. Dumbar French Master
To Robert Baillie was taken by
the Turks
For a coach fram to a glass pay
Mr. Baldwine
For a Nightgoun to my sister
Graingmoor .
To Grisie l£ 5s.
To Lady Kihaick ^ .
For 3| yd. yellow satine at 28d
for curtine to the coach
To Rachy 3s. 2d.
Aug. 26 For new prints to Turnbull
For writting the Lease from Coll
Mckenzie of Mrs. Smithes house
To Mr. Baldwine in pairt for the
coach 20 .
To Mr. Turin for a glase in two
pices 84 inches high and 28
set here inches broad with a glas Muller
by } To Mr. Turin for a chimny^ glass
mistake in ane pice 54| by 22| .
To Mr. Turin for a walnut tree
writing Desk
For ane Apron to Raplocks
doughter ^ . . . .
To Grisie ....
For 2 fans for my Nices Grisie and
Anny Humes ^ . . .
Sepm. 17 For news prints 18d. more 22d.
more 21d. Is. 7d. .
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
116
0 5 0
0 2 6
2 15 0
15 0
116
0 8 2
0 3 2
0 10
15 0
20 0 a
0 16 0
116
0 7 0
0 6 8
^ Elizabeth Calder, daughter of Sir James Calder of Muirton, fourth wife of
Hugh Rose of Kilravock or Kilraick.
^ Jean, only child of Gavin Hamilton of Raplock by Lady Margaret Keith^
daughter of John, Earl of Kintore. She married Francis Aikman of Brambleton
and Ross.
" Daughters of Lady Grisell's brother Lord Polwarth. Anne afterwards
married Sir William Purves of Purveshall ; Grisell died unmarried.
^7^5]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
37
[Sundries]
For chairs Is. 6d. Is.
For cariing my brothers box to
this house
For letters 6d., 3d., 6d.
To lose at Carts at the Duke of
Montroses
For wax and wafers 2s.
To let Lady Shusan Hay see the
wax works .
For the Court and country Cook
For Howards Cookry
dit. 18 For a book of choise recepts
1 Oct. For 2 weeks news papers .
For a weeks papers more Saterday
1st Oct.
For gazets that time
For letters Is., more Is. 6d. F.N
more 4d., 3d., lOd., 6d., 6d.
For coaches 3 sh., more Is., 2s.6d
J.O** Xo*k *xo*k Xo« • •
For scouring 3 pr pistols .
For writting a Factory to receive
mony from Bank .
To Francy Newtons expence in
going to Jerriswood 2s. .
For a weeks papers Saterday 8
Oct Is. ...
For news papers Saterday 22d
For News papers Saterday 29
For cuping Rachy in the Banyo
For collection to build Andersons
Meating house
To Grisie ....
For coaches and chaires 2s., Is.,
18d. Is., 3s. .
For cleaning three pair pistols
better . . . . .
Sterling'
£ s. d
0
2 6
0
2 0
0
1 3
0
11 0
0
2 0
0
3 0
0
5 0
0
2 0
0
2 6
0
3 9
0
2 4
0
0 4
0 4 11
0
13
6
0
6
0
0
1
6
1
0
0
0
1
6
0
3
1
0
0
1
5
0
0
5
0
1
1
6
0
8
6
0
0
6
38 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Sundries]
To old Mrs. Colvill .
To lose at Carts in Dick Montroses
To the Mob : on Princes birthday
To poket 2s., 5s., more 5s. .
To Will Brown for his book
To Brother Andrew lent him
To lose at Carts in the Duke of
Montroses ....
To a Necklace to Jeanny BiUing-
ham 1 .
For a Ridinghood to my sister
Julian - . . . .
To the Dutches of Montroses son
Ld George's Nurse
To Rachy ....
To the scaffinger a quarter at
Michelmas ....
To the watch a quarter at Michel-
mas .....
To Mr. Hays for 2 coach horses for
a quarter due the 8 of Septmr.
last
Novr. 5 For News papers Saterday 5 Novr
For letters Id., 6d. .
For News papers Saterday 12
For News papers Saterday 19th
For letters Is. 2d., 16d.
For a coach Is.
For news Ij^d. new papers
Saterday 26 Is. 6d.
ForMayMinzies going and coming
from Twittenham .
For Raches going to the Biano to
cup .....
[Sterling
£ s. d
0
2
6
0
6
0
0
1
6
0
12
0
0
10
9
0
2
6
0
4
6
0
1
0
1
10
6
1
1
6
0
5
0
0
2
6
0
2
6
25
0
0
0
1
4
0
0
7
0
0
0
1
1
2
6
0
1
0
0
1
7A
0
2
6
0
6
0
* Lady Grisell's niece, daughter of Lady Julian Billingham.
' Lady Julian Billingham, Lady Grisell's sister.
Ste
£
rlir
s.
d.
0
2
10
0
2
6
1
1
6
1
1
6
1
1
6
4
0
0
1
1
6
0
3
0
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 39
[Sundries]
For wax 2s. lOd.
For a Thomas of Kempes for
Rachy ....
To Rachys poket
To Mrs. Wilkison
To John Simmerrell
For a pair coach whiels 5£ got l£
for the old ons
To Mrs. St clair
For a I lb. sealing wax 3s. .
For 2 yd Caffa for helping the
coach l£ 4s. . . . . 14 0
thursday For 2 picturs of King George in
Decmr. 1 Toliduse ^ . . . .
For News prints Saterday 3d
For Queen Anns Acts of Parlia-
ment the last sessions
To my Dears poket .
To lose at Carts Lady Lowdens -
For the Attalantes ^ .
For a St Andras crosses Is.
For letters Is, more Is, 6d.
For a coach Is. ...
To lose at Carts Lady Marr * and
Duplin s ^ and Dutches Mon-
troses ^ . . . .10 0
To Androw Bell on account of
books 10 guinys . . . 10 15 0
For servantes and horses at the
Tour two times . . . 0 4 0
0
5
0
0
1
6
2
3
0
14
10
0
0
10
0
0
14
0
0
1
0
0
2
6
0
1
0
^ Taille-douce. Engraving on a metal plate wiih a graver or burin, as dis-
tinguished from work with the dry point and from etching.
"^ Lady Loudoun. Lady Margaret Dalrymple, daughter of first Earl of Stair,
and wife of Hugh, third Earl of Loudoun. * See p. xxv.
* Frances Pierrepont, daughter of the Duke of Kingston, sister of Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu and wife of the Earl of Mar.
. " Abigail, youngest daughter of the Earl of Oxford, wife of George Henry
Hay, Viscount Dupplin. ^ See p. 282.
40 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Sundries] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
To Mrs. Couper . . . 0 5 0
. For 3 coach glasses . . . 3 15 0
For 2 frames and covering them
for the coach glasses . . 0 7 0
To the Laird of Wedderburn ^
when in prison . . . 5 0 0
To Mrs. St clair . . . 13 6
For 4 weeks news papers Saterday
31 Decmr 0 5 6
To the wathman a quarter at
Christenmas . . . . 0 2 6
To Mrs. St clair . . . 10 0
To the Church Bathel in Mr.
Earls meeting house . . 0 2 6
To Major Boyds son James
christening where I stood God
mother 28 Decmr. 4 Guinys . 4 6 0
Decmr. 29 To the servant at Twittenham of
Drinkmoney . . . . 116
To the Twittenham stage coach
for 6 coming in . . . 0 12 0
To the servants christenmas box
half a croun each . . 10 0
To John Stewart to go to a play . 0 5 0
To lose at Carts at Lord Lowdens ^
Lady Strafford ^ etc. . . 0 8 0
For 5 1 Callico to Mrs. Crafoord at
3s. 6d. pr yd . . . ] 0 1^)^
For a coach man and two horses
payd Mr, Hays for a quarter
due the 8 of Decmr. 1715 . 25 0 0
For 6 moneths House Rent at
Christenmas Mrs. Smith . 22 10 0
To John Simmerell . . . 0 5 0
^ See p. xiv. - See p. 39.
' Anne, only daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Johnson and wife of Thomas,
third Earl of Strafford, whom the Commons at this time were anxious to impeach.
ji7i6]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
41
[Sundries]
To Mr. Alexr Guthery writter for
Ballencrieffs affair in full of all
he can ask ....
To the Heralds for our coat of
Armes .....
To Pate Hunter for a coach Mare
stabling ....
For fraught of young trees to
Berwick ....
For sclating Langshaw house by
Thomson ....
Sterlin
£ s.
g]
d.
7
18
0
0
10
0
0
18
0
0
15
0
1
16
0
448
0
9 6
London
January 1st, 1716. Sundry Accounts. Deb. to Cash.
6 For a coach Is. 3d.
7 For letters 6d., 6d., 8d., Is., 3d., Id
For a chair and coaches 5s.
To Poket I. 5s.
For a pair spectickles mending
\^ |y V^ • • • • •
For a moneths news
For a pair spectickles
To Grisie l£ Is. 6d.
To Rachy for a Raffle lost
For Thomas a Kempes to the
servants ...
feb. For letters 5d., 6d., 6d.
For chairs and coaches 4s. 6d.
2s. 6d
For a weeks news papers Is
6d-6-
To Rachy for a Play
6 To John Simmerall .
s.
d.
0
1
3
0
3
0
0
5
0
0
5
0
0
2
6
0
4
0
0
2
6
1
1
6
1
1
6
0
2
0
0
1
5
0 7 0
0
0
1
1
4
16
0
6
42 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1716
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Cess for the poor three quarters £ s. d.
at Ladyday next . . . 12 6
febr. 10 To a joyner for puting out the
closet door . . . . 10 0
For news Saterday 11th Is. 2d.,
2s. Id/y., 2s. SdjAr.
For chairs 7s. 6d., 2s., Is. .
For letters Is. 6d., 9d., 3d,, 3d., 3d.
For water tax half a year from
Midsomer to Christenmas
To John Simmerall .
For mending the watchmans box
Is. to him Is. . . .
To St leonards ^ son Patrick Ingles
To the Bannew for Grisie . . .
To the Bannew for Rachy
To the Opera for Rachy .
For a fram to Captain Kirtons '^
Pictor .....
To Mr Doll the painters man .
March For chairs 2s. 7d., more 2s.
For news papers Is. 3d., Is. 2d.,
Is. 6d., Is. 2d.
For letters 6d., 5d., 7d.
24 To the watchman a quarter at
Ladyday ....
Ap : For news Is. Tid^\j. Is. 2d., free-
holders 3s., Is. 2d., Is. 2d.
For letters Is. 3d., Id., Is. 2d.
For mending Rachels watch
To Mr. Frazer Minister
To Rachyfor a Play and ane opera
For tuning the spinets
For 8 yeards lutstring to Raplochs
doughter^ . . . . 2 8 0
0
6
0
0
10
6
0
3
0
0
10
0
1
1
6
0
2
0
0
10
0
0
5
0
0
5
0
0
10
9
2
3
0
0
3
0
0
4
7
0
5
1
0
1
0
0
2
6
0
7
7'A
0
2
6
0
6
0
0
2
6
0
15
0
0
2
6
^ Mr. James Ingles, fourth son of Cornelius Ingles of East Barns, married
Elizabeth Holburne,"and purchased the lands of St. Leonards.
2 See p. 31. ' ^ See p. 36.
iyi6]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
43
[Sundries]
For a bed to Johnie Stewart 2
weeks ....
For a coach, Is. Is. .
For window tax 3 quarters from
Midsomer to Lady day 1716
For seeing, the lyons in the Tower
May 5 For news Is. 5d., 4d., Is. 6d.
For letters Id., 7d., Id., 9d.
May 10 To Docter Arburthnet ^ for
Rachy ....
For a coach Is. ...
For Rachel Dundas's going and
comeing from Twittnem
June For 2 weeks news 2s. 4d., more
Is. 6d., 3s. 2d.
For letters 3s. 6d., 3d., paper
lOd., letters 6d. 7d.
To Jamie Scugald
To P. at Mr. Andersons
To Mr. Andersons Bathel
For 2 gallary tickets to ane opera
To Barnackie's ^ benefite 2 tickets
to the opera .
To Mrs. Betsons Nurse
To Poket 2s. 6d.
For a coach 2s. 6d., 2s. Id.
For a soliter
To Mr. Scote Garner at Chelsy for
dressing the Gardine, etc.
For 3 dusone mother pearl fish
6s. pr du:, 6 duson counters
4s. dus. ....
To Mr. Baillies Poket of Ladyday
quarter ....
[Sterling'
£
s.
d.
0
5
0
0
2
0
1
2
6
0
1
6
0
3
3
0
1
6
2
3
0
0
1
0
0 16
0 7 0
0 5 8
0 5 0
0 10 0
0 2 6
0 3 0
2 3 0
0 5 0
0 2 6
0 4 7
0 3 0
2 12 0
2 2 0
12 14 0
^ Dr. John Arbuthnott, Queen Anne's favourite physician, author of several
works ; frequently mentioned in the Journal to Stella.
^ See p. xlix.
44 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1716
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Mr. Scote in Chelsy for puting £ s. d.
the Garden in order . . 0 2 0
To John C cleat for the partition in
the seller 28s., etc. . . 1 14 0
To the watchman a quarter at
Midsomer . . . . 0 2 6
To Mr. Andersons meeting house
building . . . . 0 10 0
To my brother Polwarthes man
went to Hamburgh . . 0 3 0
June 26 For mending the coach by . 0 3 0
To Mr. Baldwine coachmakers
exequeters in pairt . . 10 15 0
For a Burnisht Gold fram to my
brother Polwarths picture . 16 0
For a glass to the coach l£ Mr.
Turnbulls man for geting it Is. 110
For 2 Lottery tickets I gave Cap
Murrays bairens . . . 0 10 0
For 2 Quarters to Mr. Hays for 2
coach Horses from 8 Decmr.
1715 to June 8th 1716 . 50 0 0
.July For coach 2s., Is., 2s. . . 0 5 0
For letters 2s. 2d., 7d., 9d., Is., Is. 0 5 6
For news 2s. 5d., Is. 4d. . . 0 3 9
For a horse hire to a servant to
woonsour . . . . 0 7 0
For Rachel my doughters picture
drawen by Cummine . . 116
For 2 setts of vots to my father
and Torphichen . . . 2 3 0
July 18 To my Dearests poket 10 guinys 10 15 0
To the Lecterers ^ tax a year at
Midsomer last . . . 0 3 6
^ A class of preacher in the Church of Englnnd at this period, often Puritarts,
usually chosen by the parish, whose duty consisted mainly in delivering after-
noon or evening lectures. They are said to have been supported by voluntary
contributions, but this entry wrould indicate a regular assessment.
I7i6]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
45
[Sundries] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
To my Dear . . . . 0 5 0
For giveing in and writting
Grangemoors Meniorialls . 16 0
To Walstons * Nurse . . 0 5 0
For 3 yd. yellow sheveret for a
curtine to the coach . . 0 9 0
For cords, etc., to the curtine . Oil
For a pound sealing wax super
fine . . . . . 0 5 0
ForRachys Bathing and cuping at
the Banio Long Aiker . . 0 6 0
To Grisie . . . . 116
To Mr. Frazer . . . . 0 2 0
To lose at carts at sundry times 3 15 0
July 31 For half a years house Rent at
Midsomer last payd to Mark
Dickson in Broad Street . 22 10 0
For spectickles . . . 0 6 6
For Pamphlets . . . 0 2 0
For Pamphlets . . . 0 2 0
For drinkmoney at Mr. Wests -
son christening . . . 3 4 6
To a watch man . . . 0 6 0
Aug. For news Is. 2d., 6d. . . 0 18
For letters 3d., 2s. 6d., Is. . 0 3 9
For a coaches 5s. . . . 0 5 0
8 To David Weems ^ . . . 2 3 0
To Martha Johnstons Nurse . 0 5 0
For mending the Kitchin sink . 0 10 0
To my Dearests poket at Bath . 22 18 0
For expence of Publick divertions
at Bath . . . . 8 10 0
^ John Baillie of Walston, Lanarkshire.
^ Probably John West, son of Baron De La Warr, and afterwards first Earl De
La Warr.
^ Perhaps the son of Elizabeth Eaillie, George Baillie's sister, who married
Mr. Robert Weems of Grangemoor.
46 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1716
[Sundries]
To Raffles at Bath .
To Docters and Apothicarys at
Bath .....
For cleaning all our Teeth at Bath
For chairs to the pump and
otherwise ....
To Mr. Chanler, etc.
For pumping and drinkmoney at
Bath .....
To Rachys poket a moydor
For coaches to and from Bath
by oxfoord ....
For seeing Blenhome and oxfoord
Collages ....
For cariing servants to Bath
For cariage of trunks to Bath .
For 8 weeks lodging 4 rooms and
garets at Bath
To the Cook and maids
For Musick books to Grisie
To my Dears poket at Bath
Oct. 13. For the coach from Robert Hays
from the 8 of June till the 8
Aug: and for the coaches stand-
ing 9 weeks at 18d. a week and
horses 3s. to Hamtoncourt
For news Is. 9d., Is. 2d., 3d., lid.
For letters 6d., 6d., Id., 6d.,
oQ., oQ. > • . •
To my Dearests poket
For a coach glas La saget l£ 5s. .
For 2 Snuff Mills La Sashet
For a kain string
To Grisie ....
To David Weems ^ to clear his
accounts and cary him home
1 See p. 45.
Sterlin
£ s.
d.
4 10
0
5 5
0
1 14
0
3 0
0
3 0
0
5 10
0
1 7
6
20 0
0
1 5
0
3 18
0
6 14
0
18 6
0
2 3
0
1 0
0
2 0
0
18
17
0
0
4
1
0
2
1
3
0
0
1
5
0
0
17
6
0
1
6
1
1
6
15
0
0
I7i6] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 47
[Sundries] [Sterling]
For a years scafangers tax from £ s. d.
Michelms 1715 to Michf^ 1716 . 0 10 0
To Androw Bell in pairt of ane
Account for books . . 10 0 0
To the Poors tax from Ladyday to
Michalmes 1716 . . . 12 0
For ane Apron to Mrs. Turnbull 0 6 0
Novr. 8 To water tax three quarters at
Michalmes last . . . 0 15 0
For a Piew in King Streat chapel
a quar. at Michel^ . . 0 9 0
For 2 brass hinges to the coach 6s.
puting them on .
To Poket ....
To the Countes of Pickburgs ^
footman ....
Novr. 16 For Pamphlets 5s. 6d., Is.
For letters Is. lOd., 6d., 3d., Is.
8d., 6d., 2d., Id. . . . 0 5 0
For news pamphlets 2s. n. 3s. 6d.,
pam. 8d., 2s. 3d., Is. 2d., Is. 2d. 0 11 9
To Mr. Weems Apothecary in full
of his account . . . 5 16
wrong For fraught and cartage of 5 duson
fish from Hadinton . . 0 13 0
25 For poket 6s., Mr. Andersons 10s.,
Jamie Scugald 5s. .
For mending the water pyps 7s.
For lose at carts 8s. .
For a pen glas to a window lOd.
For a chair Is.
For scaffingers tax for a quarter at
Christmas 1716 . . . 0 2 6
For Christmas box 8 servants l£
watchman bellman 2s. . . 12 0
0
7
6
0
7
6
0
3
0
0
5
6
1
1
0
0
7
0
0
8
0
0
0
10
0
1
0
^ Countess of Lippe and Buckenburg (in French Piquebourg), one of the
Ladies of the Princess of Wales. — Diary of Lady Cozuper.
48 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1716
[Sundries] [Sterling]
For Apoticars man, strewer 5 £ s. d.
waterman Is. shoemakers 2s. 0 8 0
To Drum trainbands Is., dustman
Is 0 2 0
To the Princes footman for a crose
10s. 9d 0 10 9
For copping a musick book
£1 Is. 6d., ruled paper 10 , 1 11 6
For Meeting House rent Christmas
quarter . . . . 0 8 0
For half a years house rent at
Christmas payd Mrs. Dickson
To poors tax a quarter at Christmas
For tuning the Spinets 2 times
To Dickson for puting out the
four windows in the litle draw-
ing rooms in Broad Street . 7 0 0
22 10
0
0 11
0
0 5
0
373 8 5
London, January 1st, 1717. Account of Sundry Expences
For paveing the streat
5
4
0
For laying the plain stons before
the door ....
2
ft
0
10
To Mr. Frazer ....
0
2
6
For newspapers Is. 2d., Is. 2d., 2s.
6d. .....
0
4
10
For letters Is. 6d. 6d. 6d. 6d.
0
3
0
To Mr. Mitchels Christening hs
son James ....
3
4
6
For a fan Rachy gave Mrs. Mitchel
0
5
0
For covers of Fans sent to Utright
to Lord Binning .
0
10
0
For ruled paper to Grisie .
0
12
0
For lose at Carts by Grisie at
Lady Marrs ^ . . .
2
3
0
^ See p. 39.
I7I7]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
49
[Sundries]
For 2 plays to Gris and Rach
For a Desk to Grisies spinet
To the watchman to Drink
For a Purs to my Lord Ghram
To the watchman drinkmony
To Poket of Christmas quarter 5
guinys ....
To my brother John Baiihe
febr. For news 14d., 2s. 6d., Is. 6d.,
Is. 6d. .....
For letters Is. 6d., 6d., 6d
For stamp paper to write Turnbuls
Factory ....
For a chair 18d., Is., 2s., 3s., Is.,
4s., 2s., 3s., 2s., 5s.
To Alexr Hume of Whitehouse ^
To lose at Carts at Duke Rox-
burgs, etc ....
For ane opera ticket to Rachy .
wrong For 18 botles Ale from Dorathy
Halliwall ....
For 2 tooth picks 2s. Tho. Hervie
2s. 6d
For helping Mr. Johnstons strong
box foot ....
March For letters Is. 6d., 3d., Is., Is. 6d.,
Xo« • • • • •
For News Is. 6d., 14d., Is. 6d.,
Is. 6d., Is. 6d. Is. 3d., Is. 2d.
To the watchman half a year at
Christmas last
For A poyam dedicat to
Rachy on the Princes
To old Frazer 2s. 6d.
Sterling
£ s. d.
0
8
0
0
2
6
0
2
0
0
7
6
0
2
0
5
7
6
1
1
6
0
6
8
0
2
6
0 2 0
1
4
6
1
1
6
0
12
0
0
10
0
0
8
0
0
4
6
0
1
6
0
5
3
0
9
7
0
5
0
0
10
9
0
2
6
^ Perhaps Alexander Hume, son of George Hume of Whitefield, who along
with his father was taken prisoner at Preston and was at this time in prison.
D
50 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Sundries] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
To Mrs. Hume Whitefield ^ . 116
To my Dearests Poket 5 guinys . 5 7 6
To Grisie . . . . 116
To lose at carts at D Roxburgs,
Rotheses and Mrs. Verners . 1 12 6
To Mr. Barnackies '' man for sinor-
ina the Dog
To Docter Cheine for Rachy
For opera tickets from Mrs.
Robison ^ . . . .
To Mr. Cuningham of Acket * 7
guinys ....
For tickets to Castruches ^ Musick
meeting ....
For 3 seats in a Pew in King Streat
Chapell at Lady day h year
For Pasing Graingmoors warrant
for Collecter at Alloa
To my Dears Poket of Ladydays
quarter ....
To the poors Tax a quarter at
Ladyday ....
March 8 To the water tax half a year at
Ladyday ....
For 2 Coach Horses from the 12 of
October 1716 to the 12 of April
1717 . . . 50 0 0
For sadle Horses in the
above sd time at 3sh
pr day from Robert
Hay in full of all ac-
counts . . 4 10 0 54 10 0
0 5
0
1 1
6
2 3
0
7 10
6
1 1
6
0 18
0
1 13
6
11 13
4
0 11
0
0 10
0
1 The wife of George Hume, who was taken prisoner at Preston and was at
this time in prison.
2 See p. xlix. ' See p. xlix.
* Probably another unfortunate of the '15. ® See p. xlviii.
1717J OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 51
[Sundries]
To James Hume ^ of Aiton my
Ld Humes brother
For writing Musick l£ Is. 6d.
Ap. 12 To the lecterer ^ half a years tax
at Ladyday ....
For window Tax a year at Lady
day 1717 ....
To Whitelich Coachmaker in full
of all Acctts
To the Kings Houshold Drums 5s.
footmen a guiny .
To the Gard Drums 6s. Cadogons
Drums 5s. .
To the parish wates 5s. Toun
Trumpets 10s. 9d.
To the yemen of the Guard a
guiny .....
To the Princes footman 10 9d.
for a poyam 10s. 9d.
To the Kings watermen
May 1st For chairs Is., Is., 3s., 2s., 2s., Is.,
5s., 2s., 4s., 2s.6d., 2s. 6d., Is. .
For letters 6d., 2s., Is., 2s. 6d.,
4d., 2s. 2d., 3s. 2s.
For Newspapers Is. 2d., 2s, 6d.,ls.
6d., 2s. 3d., 6d., Is. 2d. .
For a book bound to set doun the
visiters ....
For 14 yd. Masarin blew ruban
for the order
For wax candles 6d.
For cheana cups, basons, etc.
To a Herper came with Mr.
Isack . . . . . 116
To watherburn ^ l£ Is. 6d. Aitton
a guiny ^ . . . . 2 3 0
Sterling
£ s. d.
1
1
6
1
1
6
0
2
6
1
10
0
9
1
6
1
6
6
0
11
0
0
15
9
1
1
6
1
1
6
0
7
6
1
7
0
0
13
6
0
9
1
0
4
6
0
12
0
0
0
6
2
12
0
^ Taken prisoner at Preston, and then in prison. * See p. 44.
* See p. xiy.
0262465
52
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1717
[Sundries]
[Steriing]
£ s.
d.
For lose at Dice in Lord Staires .
1 18
0
To the Clark of the Crown for the
return of Election and giveing
in the write ....
1 11
6
For materialls for my mothers
elickses 5s. 5s. .
0 10
0
For 4 Tickets to Mr. Barnackies ^
opera .....
4 6
0
For 2 tickets to Berenstats ^
opera .....
2 3
0
For a purs to the Duke of Mon-
trose .....
0 5
0
For snuff mills, etc. in full from
Lasaget ....
0 7
0
To my sister Graingmoor .
20 0
0
For a pair Garters in a present
0 10
9
To Rachy ....
0 7
6
To Carts at Rotheses
0 13
0
June For chairs Is., Is., 4s., Is., Is., Is.,
Is., Is., 4s., 2s., 5s.
1 2
0
For News Is. 2d., Is. l^^^d.. Is. 2d.,
Is., Is. 2d., Is. 6d., Is. 2d.,
~ro« • • • • •
0 12
^1
For letters 6d., 3s. 7d., Is., 2s.,
5d., 2s. 8d., Is., 4s., Is. 6d.
0 16
8
For paper Is. pills 18d. snuff
Milne 3s. ... .
0 5
6
For Glasing the windows
0 4
6
For glas tee cups to sister Juhan
at 3d. a Tee pot 8s., glas cups
etc. 5s. ....
0 13
3
To Mary Hamilton .
0 10
0
For cloath to be a peticoat G. I. .
2 5
0
For tuning the Spinets 2s. 6d.
0 2
6
To Mr. Bradberys House
0 2
6
T¥
^ See p. xlix.
^ See p. xlix.
1717] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 53
[Sundries] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For dressing the Gardine . 14 6
For a piece flowrd Indian Callico
to sister Julian . . . 4 0 0
For linen to the CalHco l£ 3s. . 13 0
To the bairens for operas . 0 16 0
For the Pilgrams dress l£ 12s. 12s. 2 4 0
To my Lady Lockart lent and
never payd . . . . 116
For 2i yds scarlet cloath for
Docter Abernathys son George 2 5 0
July 8 For 3 Monethes dancing to Mr.
Isack for Rachy . . . 8 2 0
For standing God mother to Mr.
Johnstons doughter Lucie . 5 7 6
To Poket of the Midsomer quarter 12 2 0
To cards at Duke Roxburghs ^ 4s.
more 2s. 6d. . . . 0 6 6
To scaffingers tax a quarter at last
Ladyday 1717 . . . 0 2 6
To the watch half a year at Mid-
somer 1717 . . . . 0 5 0
To James Kilpatrick . . 0 2 0
For rubans to give in presents . 10 0
To Grisie l£ Is. 6d. To Grisie
2£ 3s. . . . . 3 4 6
For a gold watch to Monsr Ber-
nackie ^ the Italian . . 25 0 0
For a gold chean to the watch . 4 10 0
For a coat to Grisie Turnbull 0 14 0
For scafifingers tax a quarter Mid-
somer 1717 . . . . 0 2 6
For Mr. Isacks Jamie l£ Is. 6d. 116
To Vilpontu for drawing Grisies
tooth 0 10 9
For a hat to Patrick Dickson . 116
^ See p. 284. 2 See p, xlix.
[Sterling]
£
s.
d.
1
0
0
0
10
0
0
4
0
10
0
0
0
2
6
0
12
0
54 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Sundries]
For Grisie and Rachys lose at
VyCllX^O • • • • •
For my own lose at Carts 10s.
For a string to My Lord Grahmes
tortishel staff
July 30 To May Minzies to buy a gown .
To Frazer 30d.
For copping songs by Bernackie^
To Mr. Dickson for half a years
rent at Midsomer 1717 . 22 10 0
Aug. 5 To Androw Bell by a bill on
Midleton in pairt paymt . 20 0 0
For a sadle house and hulster caps 6 18 6
For shiping goods aboord when I
went to Scotland payd Hendry
Mill in full of all acctts . . 15 4
For stoping Rachys tooth with
Leed 0 5 0
For a curtine of Calamanka to the
coach .....
To Betty Dundas
For news while I was in Scotland
at Lond. ....
For letters at London while I was
in Scotland , . . . 0 11 9
To Hays for horses to Twitten-
ham Barnet and 18d. a week for
the coach standing when we
wrought not his horses . . 5 18 0
Eden. For a coach and six horses to carie
us to Scotland in 9 days . 32 15 0
For expences of 5 in the coach on
the road to Scotland till we came
Aug: 14 to Tiningham on the 14th Aug:
For expence of a servant and a horse
To my Rachy ....
^ See p. xlix.
0
5
0
0
7
6
1
0
9 6
14 13
9
1 15
0
4 3
0
I7I7]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
55
[Sundries]
Sterling]
To Docter St clair ^ and John
£ s.
d.
Baillie ....
4 10
0
To My Rachys Proclamation, etc
4 6
0
To Mr. Robertsons men
0 5
0
To Mr. Dickson for writing bonds
etc .....
4 10
9
To Mr. Aickman ^ in
pairt for picturs . 21 0 0
In full payd for the
picturs at 5 guinys
sitting and 5£ coppys 31 0 0
52 0
0
For Drinkmony at Tin-
ingham ^ when My
Rachy went home 15 0 0
For all Drinkmoney while
at Edn. and traveling
about the 6 monethes
I was in Scotland 29 10 0
44 10
0
For chears while at Edn. .
4 14
0
For Dails and trees bought by
Cap. Turnbull
33 12
8
For 16 cart to bring the above sd
timber from Berwick
5 9
4
Eden-
For 32 nights chamber rent in
burgh
Mrs. Rooms ....
6 12
6
Sept. 3
For 7| weeks chamber rent in
Mrs. Cytons ....
8 0
0
To my Dears Poket in Scotland
9 9
0
For Tickets to Consorts
0 15
0
For lose on guinys when cry'd
doun .....
2 5
0
Decmr.
To Androw Kerr writer on account
of my brother James Baillie
3 0
0
For house rent of chairs in full of
all at 6s. 8d. a year each chair
1 10
See p. XXV
0
1 Dr. Matthew St. Clair. -
ii.
' The seat of the Earl of Haddington.
56 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Sundries] [Sterling]
To Pate Hunter Stabler for horses £ s. d.
while we was in Scotland being
6 monethes . . . . 4 9 8
For 2 pr gloves to my father at
Rachys mariage . . . 0 6 0
For 2 pr gloves to Mr. Hamilton
Minister . . . . 0 5 0
For fraught and cariages by land
for goods from London to Eden-
burg etc . . . . 4 16 6
For Gloves to Lord Hadingtons
servants . . . . 0 17 0
For fraught of 2 servants to Edn
and up again . . . 6 4 10
To the servants at the Bank at
recpt of the Intr^t . . . 0 2 0
For a cover to Grisies dressing
box . . . . .050
For writing bonds and persuing
wood cutters . . . 0 10 6
For cariage of a Trunk from
London . . . . 10 0
To John Vint shoemaker my
brother Johns Acctt , . 0 18 4
To Mr. Will Hall man Arch:
Stewart ....
To Docter Gibsone ^ for Grisie .
To Domany for a years writing .
To repairing the horse furniture
in Scotland ....
Decmr.29 To P. at Earlston and Bathel
To a Councel post
To Betty Dundas Grisie Dundas
George Sim Mrs. Olifers bairens
and Mr. Turnbuls etc. and to
servants and others of Hansels 2 18 0
1
11
6
1
1
0
0
10
0
0
7
0
0
15
0
0
5
0
^ Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Appointed an
Examiner in 1725.
I7I7]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
57
t
[Sundries]
To a surgen at Berwick for my
brow .....
For 5 places in the stage coach the
11 Jany that brought us to
London the 25 January 1718
wher of Tarn Lesly payd 2£ 10
For expence of a man and horse
along with us . . .
For sadles mending boots and
whips at London .
For cariage of a box from Scotland
To the stage coachman of Drink-
money ....
Dec 30 For Acts of Parliment 5£ 3s. 6d
more books 14s. 8d.
For chairs 3s.
For mending the glas windows
To Christenmas box dustman Is.,
watch 2s. 6d., water 2s. 6d., Boes
man 2s., news boy 6d., Brewer Is.
For the votes
For coach horses to Hamton
Court payd Hays .
To my Dear for his journey on the
Road to Scotland and back to
London again and for Poket
money besids the 9£ 9s. he gote
at Edn. 86. 16 from 5 Aug. to
coches and chairs included
To the watchman half a year at
Christenmas
To the poors tax at Christenmas
1717
To the scaffinger at Christenmas
half a year ....
To my Grisies Poket 5 guinys .
To Labushier surgen
For lose by a horse bought at
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 11 6
21 16 6
1 16 0
1 12 0
0 12 6
0 5 0
5 18 2
0 3 0
0 6 6
0 9 6
116
4 0 6
86
16
0
0
5
0
2
4
0
0
5
0
5
5
0
1
1
0
58 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Sundries] [Sterling]
7£ 18s. and sold at 6 guinys to £ s. d.
carie a servant to Scotland and
back again . . . . 1 12 0
For expences in getting out the
Debenturs^ . . . . 1 12 0
To the water tax 3 quarters at
Christenmas . . . 0 15 0
For writeing in three years 1714,
15 and 1716 to James Massy . 1 10 0
For 7 tarms Cess for Mellerstaine
from March 1715 till March
1717 inclusive . . . 37 6 6^
For repairing Houses at Lang-
shaw in 3 years 1715, 1716 and
1717
Milne by Park . . 1 19 0
Coumslyhill given doun
16s., 4s. . .10 0
Sclats Langshaw house 0 10 0
more for reparations on
Parks acct . . 0 10 0
repairing Langshaw Mill 1 18 2
on Parks acct divits . 0 10 0
Wright work by James
Blakie in 3 years 6 6 10
Meason work in sd years 0 18 10
To a sclater for Lang-
shaw house . . 1 15 10
14 8 8
For 10 tarms Cess of Langshaw
from March 1715 till December
1717 inclus . . . . 32 7 S^
^ The word ' debenture ' was at this time generally used to denote the acknow-
ledgment issued by a Government Department either for goods supplied or
money lent. In this case Mr. Baillie had no doubt been lending to the
Government. His balance-sheets show that he held debentures of considerable
amount.
1717] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 59
[Sundries] [Sterling]
For Trees and seads bought from £ s. d.
Samuel Robson in Kelso . 9 3 0
For slating the Towr of Meller.
17s. by Thomson . . 0 17 0
For a kevelmell 18| Tb. 9s. 3d., 2
hows 2 gote 1715 Meller. . 0 11 3
For young thorns from Newcastle 15 0
To a fferrier for the Coach
geldine . . . . 0 12 0
To James Blakie Messeger for
bussines pr acctt and recpt. . 0 11 8
For 3 spades lis. a shuvel 20d.
this year to Mellerstaine . 0 12 8
For mending glas windows at
Meller in 3 years by Miller . 0 19 2
For 160 bolls lime laid in at
Mellerstaine . . . . 4 0 0
For yron and nails furnish' d by
Liedhouse in 3 years Meller . 18 8
For charges of my brother John
Baillies Funarels . . . 11 16 6
For smith work by Pat Newton
shoeing horse and mending work
lumes in 3 years . . . 2 13 5^^
To the Nurs 3 years house rent
White. 1715, 16 and 1717 . 2 5 0
To Tame Hilandman 3 years house
rent Whit. 1715, 16 and 1717 . 1 13 4
To Will Mill 3 years House rent
abovesd 3 years . . . 0 16 8
To Androw orniston a years rent
White. 1717 . . . 0 15 0
for 100 firrs gote from John
Humes father . . . 0 8 0
For Measone work in building
dicks at Meller in 3 years . 3 16
For Wright work at Mellerstaine
in 3 years 1715, 16, 17 . . 2 6 10
60 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Sundries] [Sterling]
For the basan in the toun of £ s. d.
Mellerstaine 1717 . . . 7 10 8
To the 5d. men at planting dicking
and quarie in 3 years . . 37 17 4
The windows tax for half a year at
Christen™^ 1717 . '. . 0 15 0
The Cess of JerrisAvood payd at
White. 1717 and preceedings 7
Tarmes in all . . . 9 16 7^%
To Wilsone writer in Lanark for
warning tenants . . . 0 6 6
To the nurs 3 bolls oats every year
of Crops 1714, 15 and 1716 . 4 10 0
To Captain Turnbull 1
3 bolls bear at 10s. 1 10 0
To him of the rent of
Jerriswood Park for
3 years 1715, 16 and
1717 grass .
248 hens at 5d.
60 capons at 8d.
To Captain of the
Park rent
36 11 0
5 3 4
2 0 0
3 18 0
49 2
7 18
7 16
4
given out
• •
• •
0
0
by Cap. Turnbull
For trees and seeds
To sundry workmen at Meller-
staine etc . . . . 3 0 0
To Mr. Turnbulls expences in
going to Langshaw, etc . 2 10
To expence of holding courts,
writings etc in 3 years . 1 15 0
To the pyp and drum at the fairs
for 3 years . . . . 15 8
1 Seems to have been the factor staying at Jerviswood and being paid largely
in kind.
1702]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
61
[Sundries]
For paper to Cap. TurnbuU
[Sterling]
£
s.
d.
0
13
0
993
13
8
Edenburgh, Januer 1st, 1702. Howsekeeping.
Debt to Cash.
[Housekeeping]
For a muchkin sinamon water .
For ginger ....
2d. For 2 pices of clarit gotten from
my brother John .
For a boll meall bought from
Lady Hill ....
For cariadges by Lesly
For 2 little swine
For 3 lb. 2 ounces suger .
20 For 2 bolls pies to the mairs and
swin .....
For a salmond ....
For 2 hams ....
For 5 fous of oats from Meller-
steans crop 1701 .
For 10 lods colls
For 8 lb. brown suger
For gins bread
For a lb. cannell 7£ 2 ounc mace
26s. per ounce
For 4 ounce nutmug 9s. per ounc,
4 ounc cloves 9s. per ounce
For I lb. white paper 12s. a pot
cofeced ginger 1 li. 2s. .
For 2 loafs candibrod suger at 18s.
per pound ....
[Scots]
£ s. d.
2 8
0
1 4
0
120 0
0
5 0
0
2 0
0
8 0
0
2 17
0
7 6
8
1 10
0
4 0
0
5 0
0
7 0
0
5 0
0
1 10
0
9 12
0
3 12
0
1 14
0
5 7
4
62 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1702
[Housekeeping] [Scots]
For 5 fous oats to the mairs from £ s. d.
Mellers. . . . . 4 0 0
For bringing from Glasgow 8
galons wine 5 marks at the port
14s. . . . . . 4 0 8
For 5 fous ots for the mairs from
Mell
For 8 galons 4 or 5 pints seek from
Cap: Broun ....
For a barrill Lews herin to Mr.
Johnston ....
For gardin seeds from Ms. Willie
To James for bringing in the horss
and out ....
For green oyntment to the mairs
hills .....
For oats ....
For a scon to the bairens .
From Mellersteans of oats one
boll and 4 fous . . . 7 0 0
May 14 From Mellersteans of ots one
boll .....
From Mellersteans of pies one boll
For beans to the hunting mair .
For expenc of bringing in corn .
For pits at Mellersteans
For yron to shoe the horss Iti. 5s.
For markums balls from Ingles
For foulls bought by Androw L.
sine Deem'".
For chickens bought by A. L. this
munth .....
For howse and horss expences in
small things from Nov^ to this
day .....
For my expences at Ginelkirk and
Mellers. ....
For yron for horss nails and other
4 0
0
89 4
0
6 0
0
9 12
0
1 12
0
1 9
0
0 12
0
0 18
0
5 0
0
5 0
0
2 5
0
3 0
0
11 15
0
1 5
0
1 18
0
14 13
0
2 0
0
8 18
6
9 0
0
1702] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 68
I
[Housekeeping]
[Scots]
things got from Liedhowse
£ s.
d.
marchant ....
16 15
0
May For 18 loads colls
12 12
0
For oyl from Lady Greenknow ^ .
4 0
0
For sweeping all the chimnys
1 17
0
For whiting the howse roofs and
S/ii • • • • •
5 4
0
12 For malt got from Preston in Lith
in full payment
111 10
0
For colls that cleard of the old
colyer .....
7 14
0
begins this For 5 scor lods colls to Edmis-
years colls tons ^ man ....
60 0
0
1702 For 2 bottles oyl .
4 16
0
For 12 pecks of oats
3 12
0
For gresing the mairs at 6d. ^ a
pice 36 days
21 12
0
August 10 For gresing the mairs 36 days at
6s. a day ....
21 12
0
, 26 For 8 bolls malt got from John
Wight ....
64 0
0
For casting truffs
00 14
0
For going out and in to Ed. with
horss, etc. ....
5 14
0
For fouls brought to Ed. .
8 7
6
For howse at Mellerstean such as
SalCj 6l>C* • • • •
1 0
0
August 27 For foulls bread etc. since the
childrin cam ther .
4 0
0
For sevarall things given out by
Androw Lamb
3 0
0
To pay ane old account of Georg
Lasons for 1699
9 0
0
For wax and waffers
00 15
0
For 5 scor loads of colls .
60 0
0
^ The wife of Pringle of Greenknow. 2 john Wauchope of Edmonstone.
^ 6d. Sterling or 6s. Scots.
[Scots]
£ s. d.
3 10
0
0 15
0
3 15
0
3 14
0
12 0
0
2 4
8
1 7
6
6 14
6
10 0
0
6 0
0
12 0
0
39 10
0
64 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1702
[Housekeeping]
For my expences at Ginelkirk
going, coming
For Trumbels bring in oats
8 For 2 furlits of oats
For materialls to a dyet drink
For a scor colls from Carlips
For oats to the mairs
To the barber 6s. more 7s. Suther-
lands man 14s. 6d.
To Lesly for cariadges
Oct. 12 To Lesly for cariadges in full of all
Meller- For a veall £6 ...
steans For 4 ship brought from Andrew
Lamb ....
29 For a stack of hay bought in the
toun .....
For 2 ston cotten 6 in the tb. at £4
6s. 2 ston rag 6 lb. one ston 8 in
lb. 2 ston 12 in lb. 2 ston 20 in
the tb. at 3£ 6s.h . . . 33 16 0
For a fatt cow bought at the fair 20 0 0
For 2 ship from John Wight . 10 0 0
For 2 ship from T. Liedhowse . 6 0 0
For 3 ston best chease at 211. 4s.
the cowrs cheas being at l£
16sh. 9 lb. of it l£ 6 4 . . 7 5 4
For 2 swin . . . . 20 0 0
For 17| staks pittes . . . 35 0 0
For 27 stack of pitts out of our
moss .....
To Davi Youll to goe in with the
ass . . . . . 17 0
For a pot oyntment to the mairs 19 0
For a stack of hay from Person . 28 0 0
For shoeing horses at Mell. . . 2 2 0
For a chair . . . . 0 14 6
For starch . . . . 0 16 0
Nov. 20 For cariadges . . . 2 8 0
1702] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 65
[Housekeeping]
To cochman and groom in arles
To a ferriar for the mairs
For corn to the mairs
For powder and starch
Noyi" 1 For 2 ruks hay to the ases
For a lofe suger at 14s. 6d.
For stabhng horses payd in full to
Pat. Hunter ....
To Sir Robert Chiesly ane old
accumpt of ale
For mending the coach harnis .
For 3 days chairs
For washing linin brought from
the book ....
For meall from Jerriswood 2 bolls
at *.o » . . ,
For backing payd Cap^^ Mitchell
For brandy got from Sir Georg
Hume in Deem'" 1700 .
Decmr 30 To Bartie Gibson for the coch
mairs soeing, etc. from Jan^ 8
1701 to Nov. 13th 1702
From James Gray 2 bolls meall at
XtO • • • • •
For meall at Mellersteans of crop
1701, 18 bolls and 4 fous at £5
per boll ....
For corn to the horss at Meller-
steans of the crop 1701, 14 bolls
at £5 per boll
To foulls and swine crop 1701 at
£5 per boll, 3b. 2f.
To the ass of ots from Mellerstens
and to the foulls 8 fouss, of the
crop 1702 ....
For bear for the ases from Meller-
steans crop 1702, 3f.
[Scots]
£ s. d.
1
9
0
0
14
6
7
14
0
0
8
0
30
0
0
2
6
0
43
2
a
78
0
0
5
0
0
2
7
0
90
12
a
60
0
0
61
8
a
30
0
0
10
0
0
94
0
0
70
0
a
17
0
0
8
0
0
3
0
0
66
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1702
[Housekeeping]
For shild pies from Mellersteans 2
peck out of 5 p. 1701 raw
For 3 ship to the servants and
salt at Mellersteans
For 10 hens, lOduckswild foull 14s.
For saim and girthes to the horss
Dec. 24 For 18 pecks bran to the horss
oLo X^S* • • • • •
Meller- For fish £3 6s. Candle £l.
steans Salt 10s. since 1st November
Jldo L • • • • •
For drink to them since November
1st to this day
Ditto For fish lis., spice Is., sop 3s. 8d.,
to the servants candle .
For warping ale 6s., sow 6s., sop for
naprie 7s. .
For salt pitter to 6 lambs £l 10,
Sciil/ dLX • • • • •
For a forpit of malt to the mairs .
For blooding the horses
For washing more this year
For bear 5 fous
From the book of small accumpts
for the monthes of Jan^, Feb^",
March ....
For the month of Aprill
For the month of May £48
For the mounth of Juny .
For the monthes of July and
August ....
For the mounthes of Septm^.
For the month of October
For the monthes of Nov^ and
Decm^. ....
Decm^ For corn to the horses at Meller-
30 steans this winter of the crop
1702
Scots]
£ s. d.
2 0 0
9 14
1 10
1 19
8
0
0
3 12
0
4 16
0
2 0
0
2 5
8
0 19
6
2 10
0 3
0 10
1 8
6 0
0
0
0
0
0
334 8
41 15
48 1
132 12
0
0
4
4
122 4
94 0
41 14
6
2
2
145 14
4
5 0
0
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 67
[Housekeeping] i
For threves oat stra to the
horss .
For meall at Mellersteans this
winter of crop 1702
For meall from Jerriswood was
forgot to be fill'd up on the
other side ....
For 10 bolls malt browin in Edin-
burgh 1702 pay'd to Thomas
Preston at 7Ti. and 6Ti. per boll
For a cow bought by Francy
Newtons wife
For brandy from James Marjori-
banks .... 228 3 0
For 3 barralls herin whereof 2 sent
to London . . . . 86 0 0
For bringing herin from Glsagow 1 5 13 4
Scots"
£ s. d.
80 0 0
15
0
0
10
0
0
68
0
0
17
10
0
S. 3154 06 2
Edenburg, January 1st, 1707. Houshold Expenc.
Deb. to Cash.
For 12 dais of colls from James
Ballinton . . . . 68 8 0
For ale browen by Ms. Howie of
my own malt . . . 30 11 10
For frute . . . . 6 0 0
For 2 duson of French aples . 14 0
For 1 ston cotten, rage one ston,
gotten from Johnston, candle-
maker . . . . 9 0 0
For a bottle sweat oyl from Ms.
Wyllie . . . . 2 8 0
To Alexander Wood for cariing
£1 10s 1 10 0
For rubarbane ounc £l 16s., beries
2s 1 18 0
68 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1707
[Housekeeping] [Scots]
For limons £l 2s. more £19 12s. £ s. d.
4s 20 18 0
For 5 bottles clarit wine from
tenants . . . . 3 15 0
Forchestons 14s.,suger and spices
£4 9s., frute £2 10s., Hungarie
water £l 16s. . . . 9 9 0
For taking out horses, etc. given
out by Tarn Youll . . 2 7 0
For a bottle Queen Hungary
water . . . . . 0 16 0
To Frazar for ale from Ocf 10 to
Janr 1st 1707 . . . 33 4 0
For stra to the mairs £7 6s. 6d. till
Decmr 30, 1706 . . . 7 6 6
For oyl to the coch £l 14s. £l 17s.
£1 17s
April 8th For coalls from Ulmatt £14 16s. .
For Mugwart water 5s.
For stra to the mairs 19s. 16s. 15s.
15s. 15s. 15s. 6d. £1 4s. £4 18s.
For a bottle Hungary water 16s.
For tows to jack 4s., tobaca 14s.
2s 10 0
For severall smalls given out by
James Carrin . . . 7 5 0
For ale by Ms. Howi of my own
malt 20 17 6
For 3 bolls mallt from Preston in
Lieth at £5 . . . . 15 0 0
Stochton's drops 14s.
For a hogshead cherie seek from
Hugh Mountgomerie . . 200 0 0
For 2 little swin at Kelso £4 . 4 0 0
Ma. 8 To Patrick Hunter in full of all
accounts of stabling . . 22 16 0
For 3 bolls one fou oats from
Meller. Crop 1705 at £5 . . 16 0 0
4 8
0
14 16
0
0 5
0
10 17
6
0 16
0
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 69
[Housekeeping] [Scots]
15 For 14 galons small bear from £ s. d.
Abay Hill at Is. per pint . 5 12 0
May 20 For a hogshead clarit sent by
Gawin Plumer to Mellersteans
For 10 pints brandy — by Sandy
Inis to Edinburgh . . 20 0 0
For 4 galons brandy sent by my
brother James to Mellersteans 57 12 0
For a suger lofe . . . 3 7 6
For 4 galons ale from Ms. Howie
and £lO's worth Ms. Monro . 12 8 0
June 6 For a hogshead clarit laid in from
Plummer at Edinburgh
For corks and botleing it at Lieth
and cariing the bottles Is. duson
cariing doun eraty and 2s. per
pice duson full ther being 19
duson of chapin bottles and 3
duson of muchkins, and drink-
mony . . . . . 4 8 0
For expence at Ginelkirk 9 men
and 5 horss . . . . 3 12 0
For 14 turs stra at Edinburgh
£14 ; 4 load grass, 10s. per load 13 16 0
For oats 12 bols 2 f. at £3 made in
meall wherof 66 ston spent at
Mellersteans betwixt the 4th of
October till the 10 June 1707 by
4 servants and swinglers 7, 3,
days and one a month to serve
also 2 pecks grots and 6 pecks
to Edinburgh and 18 ston meall
Meller- For 4| lb. candibrod suger
stean For courser suger
June 10 For a lb. capers a lb. cucumbers
£1 7s. ....
Forounc nutmugs 9s., | cloves 5s.,
1 lb. spice 18s. .
37 4
0
3 16
6
2 18
0
1 7
0
1 12
0
£
1
Scots'
■ s. d.
4 0
26
0
0
1
15
6
14
0
0
70 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1707
[Housekeepi ng]
For 4 tb. rise £l 4s. .
For bread at Edinburgh from
October 10 to June 10 .
For 1| fows malt to servants in
Meller[steans] in winter .
For a sow to Edinburgh from
widow Wight
For sop 5s., blew 2s. 4d., thread
3s. 2d., sand and oyl 2s. 6d., ale
2s., quicknin Is. this in winter
at Mellerstean by Mary Muir .
For ale Aprill 1st 10 pints werping
2 pints ....
For 6 sheep from Mellerstains to
Edinburgh ....
For ale from Ms. Monro
For 4 dales colls from Ulmatt in
full of all account .
Ditto For corn to the horss at Meller-
steans crop 1706 at £3 3s. —
31 bol— till the 2d of October
For light corn to the horss £l 4s.
at 28s. per boll
For corn to the swine crop 1706 at
£3 3s. per boll 4 b[olls] 1 f[irlot]
June For 66 threves oat stra at 4s. per
threve at Mellerstains
For pies to the swine crop 1705,
1 f. 2 p.
For bear to the swine 2 bolls 1 f.
£5 per boll ....
For swine and fouls till Oct. 3d
7 bols oats at £3 3s.
To the mairs sent to Edinburgh in
winter 9 bols oats at £3 3s.
For a Tb. tobaca £l 4s.
For mum from Ms. Monro
0
17
6
1
4
0
20
8
0
10
0
0
16
4
0
97
10
0
2
2
6
12
11
0
12
18
0
1
7
0
11
0
0
22
1
0
28
7
0
1
4
0
7
1
0
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 71
[Housekeeping] [Scots]
For a punshon small bear from £ s. d.
Lieth 6 0 0
To Alshy Wood for cariages
£2 4s, 6d 2 4 6
June 10 For 12 bolls 4 fous at £3 4s. of oats
made at Mellerstains wherin
ther was 53 ston meall and 2
pecks and a half of grots 6 pecks
seads of on kilfull in the other
kilfull 42 ston and 4 ston to the
fouls and 4| pecks grots 6 pecks
seads . . . . . 41 0 0'
July 20 For 6 bolls 2 fous oats made in
meall at £3 3s. per bol . 20 4 6
Aug. 10 To expenc at Ginelkirk with 5
horss . . . . . 2 14 0
Aug. 26 For meat and drink at Edinburgh
a fourtnight with 3 servants . 62 0 0
To expenc at Ginelkirk with 6
horss . . . • . 3 11 6
For 5 load gras to the mairs in
May 2 5 0
To Patrick Hunter, stabler, in full
of all accounts . . . 10 10 0
To Alshi Wood, cariar, £3 14s. . 3 4 0
For a load Scarsburg water . 22 0 0
To Hendry Youll for a boll malt
makeing £4 more . . . 5 8 0
For 6 bolls bear for malt at £5 per
bol 30 0 0
Sep. 24 To Alshy Wood in full of all
accounts . . . . 3 0 0
For ale to Grace Brunfild at Green-
law 3 0 O
For canlle from Agnes Smith in
Kelso from June the 10th till
the 1st of October 4 ston 2 lb.
wherof a stone J cotten at
72 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1707
[Housekeeping]
£4 per ston comon candle
Sep. 29 For sope from Thomas Chato in
Kelso from June 10th to this
day at 6 shilline per pound .
Ditt. For starch and indigoe to said
Chato ....
Ditt. For severall small things to the
house from said Chato such as
veniger, spice, gatt, same, etc.
For half a ston of candle more
from Agnis Smith .
For 9 tb. wight candle 5 last winter
and 4 in Aprill when Jerriswood
was out ....
For a thousand herins
For expenc of horses bringing to
Edinburgh ....
For 14 loads colls
For a tb. tobaca £l 4s.
For soap at Mellerstains last
winter 12s. ....
To sow piges ....
For bringing wine from Lieth
mans expences
For salt at Mellerstains last winter
from Oct. 1st to June .
For 16 scor ewes milk 2 days for
cheases ....
For sundry expence with horss at
Broxmouth, etc., payed Tam .
Oct. 2d For 30 threve oat stra to the horse
at 4s. per threve .
ditt. For 78 threve bear stra at 2s. 6d.
per threve ....
For pies to horss at Edinburgh
1 bol 2 f ., horse at Meller[steans]
4 fo: 4l. ....
Scots'
£ s. d.
15 9
0
10 16
0
1 0
0
6 0
0
1 16
0
1 16
0
6 0
0
2 16
0
2 5
0
1 4
0
0 12
0
1 3
4
0 13
0
4 10
0
5 6
6
2 15
0
6 0
0
9 15
0
8 16
0
1709] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 73
[Housekeeping^
[Scots]
£
s.
d.
To the swine of pies If. ll.
0
16
0
For 6 pound snuf tobaca
3
0
0
For last winters candle from
Cochran ....
43
0
0
For 10 pints brandy payd Gawin
Plumers man
21
6
6
To Patrick Hunter for M'gies
horse .....
1
9
0
For 20 stacks piets casten for
other 20 bought at £2 per stack
40
0
0
For 11 rucks hay at £9 and £8 per
ruck .....
93
0
0
For 14 lambs from the Park kild
14
0
0
For 19 sheap at £4 per pice from
the Park ....
76
0
0
For ane ox and a cow from the
Park kild ....
50
0
0
1620
10
0
Brought from day book this year
827
10
0
2448 0 0
By 11 ruks hay of Coltcrooks park 93 0 0
By 8 horse grased on Coltcrooks
park at £12 per pice . . 96 0 0
S.2637 0 0
Mellerstaine, January 1st, 1709. Housekeeping,
Deb: to Cash.
For 2|fous of shield bear for broth £ s. d.
from the Milne . . . 4 3 0
For 4| ounce of indigoe at 7s. per
ounce . . . . . 116
74 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1709.
[Housekeeping]
4th For 2 boll malt from Hendrj^
Youll .....
For 4 tb. sope £l, more 10s. 10s.
10s. 10s. 15s. £1 15s. 10s. 10s.
18 For candle 9s. pay'd in full for
candle from Greenlaw
For muton to the servants £3 5s.
more £2 6.
For 13 bolls bear at £7 per boll
from the tenants .
For makeing 2 stip of mallt of the
abovesaid bear
For ale given the maltman for a
steep at Huntly Wood .
For ale to John Shiels's stiep of
malt .....
For 2 tb. suger
March 24 For a ib. spice from Kelso
Ditto For George Dods expence to
Edinburgh, etc.
For 23 pints of brandy bought
by John Monro
For half a barrill of Glasgow herins
For a I fow bear meall
For 2 swine from the milne
For 1 ounc cinamon at 10s. ounc,
cloves 9s., ounce nutmugs 10s.
For 1 ounce mace at £l 6s., 2
kitchen suger 12s. .
For 4 ib. 4 ounces loaf suger at 14s.
per tb. ....
For a chapin cucombers £l, a tb.
capers 16s. .
For a muchkin oyl .
For 2 J ston butter at £3 10s. per
stone, salt Is. . . .
May 1 For wild foull from Bowir to this
Cla\ • • • • •
Scots'
£ s. d.
16 0
0
6 10
0
4 13
0
5 11
0
48 11
8
6 0
0
0 8
0
0 12
0
1 0
0
1 4
0
1 16
0
48 6
6
5 10
0
0 17
0
24 0
0
1 9
0
1 18
0
2 19
6
1 16
0
1 1
0
8 16
0
1 10
0
1709]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
75
[Housekeeping]
[Scots
£
s.
d.
For butter from Kelso £8 .
1
17
0
For 2| stone butter from Ms
Bilingham . . . .
9
0
0
For veniger, 2 pints
1
4
0
For bief from Kelso
2
0
0
For 4 tb. hopes at 14s.
2
16
0
For suger 6s.
0
6
0
For 8 tb. starch 8 tb., powder at 4s
per tb. . . . .
3
4
0
For salet oyl 6s. tobaca pips 8s. .
0
14
0
For a tb. tobaca
1
4
0
For sweat butter
0
6
0
For foulls . . . .
0
16
0
For 2 duson oranges
4
16
0
For drink in John Shiels's
1
4
0
6 For 12 bolls and a fow of oats at
£9 per boll wherin there was
>
12 stone twise shild meall anc
I
43 ston houshold meall and 31
ston for fieding fouls and ^
i
pecks grots . . . .
109
16
0
For 2 furlits pies shield
5
0
0
For a furlite bear meall fronr
I
Widow Wight
1
14
0
For 4 tb. hops
2
16
0
For 3 botles white wine £2 8
>
veniger 6s. .
2
14
0
For 12 tb. suger 5s. 12 tb. 8s
cariage 14s. . . . .
12
8
0
For trouts . . . .
1
4
0
For 2 firikins butter wighting each
I
4 stone 13 ounces including the
barrills one at 13 sh. 6d. the
k
other 14 sh. and a sivenpence
^
cariage from Anick to Woollei
17
3
0
For veniger 12s. a tb., butter 6d.
0
18
0
For a quarter of bief at Kelso .
7
12
0
1 17
0
5 11
0
0 12
0
3 4
0
0 14
0
76 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1709
[Housekeeping] [Scots]
£ s. d.
For floor at Kelso . . . 0 18 0
For mirr 4s. tobaca and pips
£1 12s. waffers 4s. bread £l . 3 0 0
For mending the jack 12 sh. wild
foull £1 5s. .
June 23 For half a firiken of sope .
For pigeons 12s.
To Ms. Oliphent for sugar
For tobaca 14 sh. .
For 2 dusone hard fish from
Patton one at 12 sh. one at
14s. and cariage . . . 14 13 0
For . . . ston cotten candle at
.... and . . . stone rage weeked
candle at . . . . . . 30 0 0
For candle at 4s. 6d. per tb. clears
all from Greenlaw . . 3 12 0
For blew 12s. blew £3 4s. at 8 per
ounce . . . . . 3 16 0
For a fou of bear for meall
£2 12s 2 12 0
Aug. 12 For 2 tb. sope lOsh. 10s. 15s. 10s.
10s. 10s 3 5 0
For 65 stacks peats casten in the
moss, £1 10 for 30^ of them . 45 15 0
For spices, pickles, etc. from Ms.
Oliphant . . . . 4 8 0
To William Mitchell pairt of his
fathers account for backing . 110 0 0
For corks from Edinburgh £7 2s. 7 2 0
For limons and orangs £7 8s.
more £4 16s. . . . 12 4 0
For sundry things sent by Ms.
Monro such as solan gees, herin,
bread, etc. ....
For brandy at £2 2s. per pint
For a barrill of herin • •
12 8
0
48 6
6
5 10
0
I
[Scots
£
s.
d.
6
0
0
10
8
0
15
2
6
0
6
0
1
4
0
2
8
0
6
4
0
1709] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 77
[Housekeeping]
For diner at Channelkirk going to
toun .....
For linin washing while 14 days in
Edinburgh ....
For 3 bolls malt from Preston of
ane. old account in full of all he
can ask or crave 15
For cariing bagage
For spirit of wine 14 sh., 2 tb.
pouder 10s.
For 4 tb. suger
For 8 hunder Dumbar herins
For a cariage and a half pay'd
John Waugh to Edinburgh . 2 5 0
For a stack piets from Robert
Hope in winter
For 3 veals ....
Sep. 26 To William Burnit for couper
work since 9 Sept. last .
For 8 darg troves casting at 6
pence per day
For 51 loads colls from Itell
[?Etal] Hill at 6d. per load .
For a stone and a tb. butter from
John Mair in Jerriswood
For 1 tb. suger 18s. more 18s. 18s.
14s. £1 16s. ....
For a four gallon barrill being 1^
aghtendeel wite boonties and
Irf aghtendell graw errete ^
was 16 gulders 3 sturs the
profite and exchange of mony
by Lewis Pringle in all is . 19 9 0
For a firikine Dutch sope from
Lewis Pringle . . . 9 12 0
7
0
a
6
10
0
12
0
0
2
8
0
15
6
0
3
8
0
5
14
0
' Aghtendeel wite boonties = eighth part of white beans (harricot beans),
and aghtendell graw errete = eighth part of grey peas. The words are old
Dutch phonetically spelled.
78
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1709
[Housekeeping]
For a leg beef and the trips of it
For 2 dusone hard fish from Will
Patton ....
For veniger ....
For a botle of oyl
For half a dusone aples to Grisie
For a botle oyl
For frawght and other expences of
bringing the Spaw water from
Lieth to Edinburgh
For a veall from Munga Brounlies
Oct. For candle £2, more £3 12s. more
12s
For 1 tb. spice
For cheas at £2 2s. per stone
For brandy at £2 16 per pint
For tobaca
To workmen for clineing the
closes .....
For 24 bolls 2 fous 2 pecks meall
made in Jan^ last and put in
the ark at £5 10s. the boll oats
For 31 bolls oats to the horses at
£6 the boll betwixt the 2d Oct^
1708 and the 1st Sep^ 1709,
that the horse was taken in
For 5 bolls horse corn in the
abovesaid time £3
For foulls that was fed 1 bol, 2 f.
cLIj otrO • • • • •
For f eading all the fouls in generall
and swine 3 bolls 3 f. .
For peas to the horse in abovesaid
time 2 bols 1 f . at £7
For pies to the fed swine in above-
said time, etc. 2 bols 4 f . .
For 12 bolls 2 fows oats made
[Scots]
£ s. d.
4 10
14 13 0
1 10 0
2 2 0
2 14 0
2 2 0
11 6 0
2 0 0
6 4 0
14 0
1 16 0
6 17 0
2 6 0
1 10 0
132 0 0
186 0 0
15 0 0
8 8 0
21 12 0
15 8 0
19 12 0
1709] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 79
[Housekeeping] [Scots]
in meall in May last wherein £ s. d.
there was 84 stone houshold
meall and 10 stone twise shield
meall and 8 stone given to
Munga Park for Langshaw
milnetakeof £11 4s. forMun[g]a
Parks the oats comes at £6 to 63 4 0
For horses in the abovesaid time
6 bolls 1 f. 2 p. at £6 . . 37 16 0
For light oats at half price, 7 bols,
1 f . 2 p 21 18 0
For pies to the horse 1 bol 3 f . at
£7 9 4 0
For pies to swine, pigions, etc. 3
bols If 22 8 0
For bear stra to the horse at 8 per
th. 19 th 7 12 0
For 200 threve oat stra at 12 per
th 120 0 0
For 19 th. bear stra at 8s. per
threve .....
For 3 cows gras in the Mains
For milk £2 2s. cheas £2 2 sh.
For a leg bief
For a stone butter .
For spices suger etc. from Charles
Ormiston . . . . 12 0 0
For spices £l 18, starch £l, tobaca
and snuff £3 10s. . . 6 8 0
For expences in botleing the clarit
and puting 14 dusone a bottles
in shiepboord for London . 9 18 0
For 1 stone 3 quarters candle from
Greenlaw since Oct. . . 6 0 6
For three bolls of wheat bought
from Rutherfoord . . 36 0 0
To Alexander Wood for cariing all
this year and pairt of the last . 18 4 0
7
12
0
12
0
0
4
8
0
3
4
0
3
6
0
80 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1709
[Housekeeping]
For bringing pigeons 6s. .
For two milk cows from the Park
For 2 veals from the Park
For five cows from the Park kild
For 34 sheap kild in the house
For 9 sheap salted in the ladner .
For 11 lambs kild to the house .
For bringing pigions 6s.
Deem'" 1 For drinkmony for pigions from
Rutherfoord ....
From daybook for this year
For suger pickles, etc. from Ms.
Olifent ....
For 14 rucks hay at £9 per pice
For graseing 13 horses
[Scots]
£ s.
d.
0 6
0
72 0
0
8 0
0
130 0
0
137 6
0
36 0
0
24 0
0
0 6
0
0 12
0
173 12
0
50 0
0
126 0
0
156 0
0
S.2603 0 8
Mellerstaines, January 1710. Housekeeping.
Deb. to Cash.
Sterling
For 14 bolls bear for two steeps of
malt at £8 10s. Scots which is in
English moony 14 sh. 2d. . 9 18 4
For makeing the two kills full of
mallt at Kelso . . . 0 18 10|
For 2 stone barlie 6s. 4d. . . 0 4 6
For 8 lb. paper 16s., 1 lb. nutmugs
10s., a botle oyl 3s. 6d. . . 19 6
For 4 ounces blew 3s. 4 lb., starch
Is. 6d. ..... 0 5 6[sic]
For a muchkine orang floor water
2s. 6d 0 2 6
For 6 dusone limons and 2 duson
oranges . . . . 10 0
1
2
6
6
5
8
0
9
6
1
10
8
i7io] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 81
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For 7 pints of miim . . 0 11 8
For suger at Is. 2d. per !b. from
Sir Robert Blackwood . . 1 13 6
For bisket to my L[ord] Marches
childreen and Lord Grahme . 0 3 0
For 4 botles of white wine at 4s.
per pint . . . . 0 9 0
For a barrill of Liews herin £l Is.
8d. cariing from Lieth lOd.
For brandy at 4s. lOd. per pint
For 4 botles brandy at 4s. 8d. per
pint and cariing 2d.
For 3 dusone and 4 hard fish
For washing linins in Edinburgh
near 10 weeks . . . 112
For starcht linins dresing and
washing said time . . . 12 0
For expences going in to Edin-
burgh and comeing out . 1 10 0
For cariages in that time by
Wood . . . . 0 16 0
March 1 To household expence in Edin-
burgh near 10 weeks brought
from daybook this year . . 8 7 8
For 2 stone candle from Greenlaw
at 6sh. ....
For 13 ells seckin at lOd. per ell .
For a peck floor
For a back say and a rump of bief
For a for leg of veall
For half a leg of bieff
For I tobaca Is. 1|, pips 2d|,
chark 3d| ....
For 12 flasks Burgundy at 7s. per
flask . . . . . 4 4 0
For a tb. cinamon 10s., | ib. cloves
5s. I mace 12sh. . . . 17 0
F
0
12
0
0
10
la
0
2
0
0
5
0
0
2
1
0
6
8
0
1
n
82
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1710
[Housekeeping]
For 2 stone rice at 8 sh. per stone
For half a pound Bohea tee
For I lb. green tee .
For a barrill salt cod from Bailiff
Fall in Dumbar
For cariage of the cod from
Dumbar
For a boll oats to the mares
For cariages payd Alexander
Wood
For pigions
Ap. 3d For a pint of oile [?] to the
werping ....
For a fatt oxe from Thomas "1
Turner to kill .200
For corn to the above-
said oxe at £7 10s. per
boll . . . 0 17 6
For 12 bolls of oates made of meall
at 12 sh. 6d. per boll, there was
of houshold meall 48 ston, of
meall for sour cakes 5 stone,
for meall to the foulls 30 stone,
there was three pecks of grots
For twelve bolls oates made in
meall 103 stone 103 stone [sic]
and 6 pecks of grots, thire oats
was at 12sh. 6d. per boll
The meall of thire 24 bolls oats
was begune to on the 23d of
November last 1709
For 15 bolls oates to the coach
mares preceeding the 1st of
Aprill at the Christinmas fiers
£7 10s. Scots
For 3 bolls to straingers horse
preceeding the 1st of April
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 16 0
110
0 5 0
13 4
0 2
6
0 13
4
0 3
6
0 2
0
0 0
2
2 17
6
7 10 0
7 10 0
9 7 6
1 17 6
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
83
y
[Housekeeping]
For 3 fous oates to the cart horses
For 2 bolls 2 fous to the swine and
fouls preceeding 1 Aprill
For 9 bolls light oates to the foils
and other 3 horses preceeding
the 1st of Aprill at 5sh. per boll
For 3 fous peas to the mares at 15
sh. per boll ....
For 1 boll bear made in meall at
15sh. per boll
For a sow from Adam
Hutchison . .10 0
For a boll oats to feed
the abovesaid sow 0 12 6
For a fow of peas to the
sow and 1 peck . 0 3 9J
For 10 forpers ^ of peas reckon' d
1 furlit and a peck at 15 sh. per
boll given to the pigions
For 2 forpets peas to the house
For 1| fows peas to the mares at
J. Oo* • • • • •
For I fow bear meall from
Widow Wight
For limons and oranges at 2s. 6d
per duson
For 2 duson limons .
For brandy at 5sh. per pint
For a stone butter .
For 100 herins .
For salt pitter 8d. 4d.
For 6 bolls 4 fous and 3 fourtperts
came to the horse oats .
For half a stone of pouder 4d|
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 6 6
18 4
2 5 0
0 9 0
0 15 0
1 16 3
0 3 9
0 0 9
0 4 6
0 18
0 8 0
0 5 0
18 1
0 6 0
0 2 4
0 10
4 18
0 3 0
^ Forpet, forper, or fourtpert is stated by Jamieson to be the fourth part of a
peck, or in other words a lippy. Lady Grisell, however, makes it the fortieth
part of a boll, or equal to if of a lippy. This entry is arithmetically wrong.
[Sterling'
£
s.
d.
0
7
6
0
2
0
0
6
5
0
1
0
0
2
5
0
1
6
0
4
0
0
2
6
0
11
0
0
18
0
0
3
4
84 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Housekeeping]
For 6 gross of corks .
For a botle of spirits
For several! small things for
Rachels backing
For killing 3 swine .
For the coches going in for
Colonel Stewarts lady . . 0 16
For the cartes going to Edinburgh
for the kavie etc.
For 4 tl). small candle Is. 6d.
May 27 To Alshy Wood for cariing
For 2 lb. hopes 2s. 4d.
For 22 gooslings from Togoe [sic]
For a firikine of sope as it cost at
Newcastle ....
For 10 lb. Cheshire cheas
For whittining to the wals Is. 3d.
Glew Is. 6d.
For bring[ing] the firikin sope
from the Hirsile
June 16 For wild foull from Bowir 3 sh.
For sundry small things in Edin-
burgh 3sh. more 2sh.
For Ginelkirk bill going and
comeing the first of June
For boord wages to three servants
in Edinburgh
For the coach mares at Kelso
with Lady Rutherfoord .
For eight dargs of truffs casting
by Mowit ....
For 2 swine from Adam Hutchison
For servants beds, etc. at Edin-
burgh . . . . . 0 10
For a cariage of clarit and another
of cloathes . . . . 0 5 0
For 4 lb. candle Is. 8d. . . 0 18
0
1
0
0
3
0
0
5
0
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
1
2
0
4
0
1
17
6
I7I0] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 85
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For 1| gros korks 2s. 5| tb. £ s. d.
almonds Is. . . . . 0 3 5
For 500 herin 5s. lOd., 500 herin
5 sh 0 10 10
For tobaca a tb. Is. lOd. . . 0 1 10
For wildefoull plivergs [sic] gray
at 6d. green 5d. per pair, ducks
6d. per pice small tiel 4d. per
pice . . . . . 0 5 8
Sep. For bringing wine from Dumbar
etc. M. Brounlies . . 0 10 4
For salt from Munga at 4d. § per
peck . . . . . 0 8 6|
For cariages of Spaw water, etc.,
by Alshy Wood . . . 0 16 0
For suger at 8d. a pound got by
Lady Couston . . . 116
For pears and aples at the second
hand a gess ^ of both . . 0 8 0
For a gess of aples from Purvis
Hall .....
For frute at the fair
For barberies in drinkmony
30 Oct. For cariages by Alshy Wood
preeceeding this day
For 22 wild foull at 6 pence a pice
For 2 bolls meall from Jerriswood
at £6 per boll . . . 01 0 0
Decm^ For wine from the Taverin in all
£4 wherof £l set in d[ay] book 3 0 0
For colls at Edinburgh from
midle November till January,
£l 16s. 6d. wherof £l 4s. 8d. set
in day book . . . 0 11 10
To Alshy Wood for cariages from
8 Novr till January, £l 6s. 6d.
^ Gess or guess applied as a measure for apples and pears two or three
times, but no information as to its meaning has been found.
0
7
6
0
3
6
0
1
0
0
8
0
0
11
0
86
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1710
[Housekeeping]
wherof 8s. 6d. more 2s. in day
book .....
For bread sent to Mellerstaines ,
For ale from Baillie Hay when
Grisie was maried .
For brandy ....
For drags to the efflixar .
For a pice of wine at Grisies
mariage from Doc: Melvin .
For aples bought at Kelso
For a lofe suger at Is. Id. | per lb.
To Ms. Howie for linins to our beds
For spices ....
To Alshy in full of this years
cariages ....
For milk from Adam Hutchisons
ewes at 2d. per pint
For butter bought from John
Main in Jerriswood at 5sh. 4d.
per stone, 13 1 ston more 3 lb.
wight .....
To Provist Brown ane old
account taken on 1705
For meall to fead foulls from
Widow Wight at 16d. per ston
12 stone ....
For 2 st. 3 lb. cheas from her at
3 sh. per stone
For 4 fous malt to the servants
in winter ....
For 19 stacks of piets being a foot
larger then the £4 staks I payd
Tam Youll 4sh. 2d. ster. for
91 stacks . . 3 10 10
For 10 double stacks
piets casten by Mowit
and Lindsay at the
same price for 5 stacks 117 6
Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
16
0
0
3
6
0
16
8
0
17
8
0
4
0
28
10
0
0
6
8
0
7
6
0
2
6
0
6
0
0
2
6
0
3
4
3 12 0
Oil 0 0
0 16 0
0 6 6|
0 14 8
5 8 4
I7I0]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
87
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
To William Mitchell in full £ s. d.
of his fathers account for bake-
ing . . . . . 7 13 4
For wine seek brandy at Grisies
mariage from George Christy 7 12 6
For 4 Turkies bought in Septem-
ber at Ripath . . . 0 8 0
For seek ale etc. furnish by Ms.
Monro 16 Aug. . . . 1 10 O
For 47 loads cols quherof 6 small
from Itell . . . . 12 0
For Androw Lams expence at the
colls 0 10
For sundry things bought by
Androw Lamb such as bread,
fish, butter, wild foull, etc. . 3 9 6
For chickens bought by Lamb . 0 15 0
Aug. For stoktens draps 2s. 2s. . . 0 4 0
For oranges and limons . . 1 13 0
For brandy . . . . 1 10 3
SepJ". For tobaco, etc. . . . 0 10 IQ
For severall things bought by
Francy Newton as oysters,
solan geess, limons, snuff, etc. 16 0
For meat bought in the Market of
Edinburgh by Robert Mander-
sons bill . . . . 7 10 O
For spices at the mariage . 0 7 0
For one boll oats to
fead two swine and
2 fous at 17s. 6d. 10 0
For 3 fous bear at !> 2 1 4
13s. 4d. per boll 0 8 0
For 4 fous peas at
16s. 8d. . 0 13 4 ^
For 2 bolls 1 fow bear given for 2
bolls malt from Sticher 13s. 4d.
boll 19 4
88
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1710
0 2 8
[Housekeeping]
To the foulls of bear
1 fow
To the foulls of oates 4
fous . . 0 10 0 ,
For peas to the pigions 12 forpets ^
at 16s. 6d. per boll is about
For 3 fous peas to the mares at
16s. 6d. is about
For oates to the mares, etc., till
3d September 3 bols 1 fow
For ,oats to straingers horse
abovesaid time 4 B: 2 f. at
12s. 6d.
all crop Made in meall 12 bolls 4 fous at
1709. 12s. 6d. per boll is
For a boll bear for feeding the
borr . . . . .
For bear to the milne for servants
9 fous .....
For oate stra at 6d. per 200
th[reve] ...
For 40 threave bear stra at 4d.
per threve ....
For 40 th: peas stra at 6d. being
very ill ....
For hay this year from Coltcrooks
meadow ....
For a veall calf from John Hope
For 28 fatt sheap bought from the
Park at 9s. 2d.
For 5 fatt nowt from the Park .
For 6 sheap and a cow to the
servants from Park
For 14 lambs from the Park at 4s.
per pice
For 3 more sheap to the servants
[Sterling
£ s. d.
0
12
8
0
5
1
0
9
10|
2
0
0
2
15
0
7
10
0
0
13
4
1
4
0
5
0
0
0
13
4
2
0
0
9
15
0
0
5
0
12
16
8
11
9
8
2
15
4
2
16
0
0
15
0
1 See p. 83.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 89
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For meat to Georg Baillies man . 0 12
For 2 bolls malt from Androw
Broun that was brown in
strong ale in October . . 2 0 0
For 2 sheaf) to the servants . 0 5 6
For expence for the tenant bring-
ing meall Brughton . . 0 6 0
For suger, frutes, pickles, etc.
from Ms. Olifent . . . 6 5 0
For sundry things from Char:
Ormston per account . . 1 15 10
For a firikine soap . . . 10 6
For ewes milk from Georg Newton 0 3 4
To Charles Hay, baxter, for
backen meat at one diner when
Grisie was maried . . . 5 0 0
To Thomas Fenton for confections
and milk one diner at Grisies
mariage . . . . 11 15 0
For household expence at Meller-
stains from 1st March till 1st
July, brought from Day book . 7 5 6j^
For household expence in Edin-
burgh, June and July . . 17 3 3
For household expenc at Meller-
steans, Aug. and September . 1 8 6^^
For household expence Nov^ and
Decmr at Edinburgh . . 10 4 2
For 13 rucks hay from the Park
at 15sh. per pice , . 9 15 0
For graseing 12 horses at £l the
pice . . . . . 12 0 0
£345189^
90 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1714
Mellerstaine, Janr. 1st 1714. Houshold Expences.
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
To Mrs. Liver for six turkies . 0 10 9
For 44f pints Brandy from Will
Robison in Aymouth in part
payment . . . . 4 15 0
To expence of the horse that caried
the Brandy . . . 0 0 10
March 26 To John Baillie Sm-gen in full of
all Accounts ....
For half a stone starch
For expences at Faladam ^ going
6 and 8d. Ginelkirk coming
home 7 and 8d. .
For washing at Edn: till 10 March
For small thing such as powder
and oyl, etc.
For three chopins of Hunny
For Brandy at 4d. the pint
For snuff 5s. .
For suger and other small things
given out by myself
For a Milk Cow at Faladam
For corks to the cherie and
botleing of it at Lieth . . 0 2 7
For 30 dusone oranges, 20 dusone
limons at 15d. p duson, out of
which I had 8 gallons orrange
wine and large twelve gallons
of pansh and 2 dusone oranges
beside to preserve . . . 3 2 6
For a cariage of cherie and
customs . . . . 0 2 7
For cariing trunk 6d., drinkmony
6d., horse brecking . . 0 10-
1 17
7
0 2
8
0 14
4
0 18
0
0 2
0
0 6
0
7 12
0
0 5
0
0 8
6
2 16
8
A small village lying between Edinburgh and Mellerstain.
1714] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 91
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For 2 bolls 2 fows Malt from £ s. d.
stonerige Tividale measure . 2 6 0
For 10 bolls oates at 4£ 15d. Scots
pr boll out of which there Is.
6d. stone twise sheeld Meall two
pecks of Meall which is recond
duble Meall and sixty three
stone of servants Meall 8 pecks
of seads . . . . 3 19 2
For three bolls one fow Malt from
Berwick at 15s. the Lowthien
boll 3£ customs 4d. . . 3 0 4
For 7| stone butter last year from
Jerri swood at 5s. pr ston . 1 17 6
For bolls Meall from Jerris-
wood to Edn.
Ap. 14 For sope, candle, etc. from Lied-
house Merchant haveing cleard
all with him this day
For cariing by Wood
To carrin for snuff Is. ornistons
stable Is. .
For cards Is. 4d., 3| lb. resins Is.
5d.y%, wax 4d. ^^"'2 .
For Brewing 7 bolls Malt by Mrs.
Ainsly .....
For a ston hopes to the said Malt
out of which I had a puntion
very strong Ale 10 gallons good
second Ale and four puntions of
Beer .....
For Diets from Hume Mose this
winter .....
Ap. 21 For salt a boll ....
To the English Butcher for mak-
ing a sow in hambs
Ap. 28 For a firriken sope from New-
castle l£ Is. 6d. cariing Is. 6d.
0
6
0
0
5
0
0
2
0
0
3
2
0
10
0
0
14
0
0
8
6
0
8
0
0
2
6
1
3
0
92
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1714
[Housekeeping]
For cariing hopes etc. 6d. .
May For 5 lb. butter from John Person'
2s. 6d. more 18 lb. more 9d.
For 14 lb. at 5d. 5s. lOd. .
For 3 old Geess at 8d. 6 young
ones at 6d. almost at full gruth
For baling at Preston Is. 6d. At
Ginelkirk 4s. ...
To Mrs. Crafoords Maid Is.
Francy Newtons 2s. 6d. John
Barr Is. ... .
To mens boord wages at Edn.
For pometum to the bairens
For 47 pints of Cherie from
Gilbert Stewart
For 2 duson and nine botles
muchkins of fruntimack from
Will: Carss ....
For a veal calf from the hird
For drink at Dunce Is. 6d., drink
at Langshaw Is. .
For floor from Berwick 3s., suger 2s.
For 8 pecks Meall for fouls at
Kelso .....
For Bieff 5s. .
For 1 ston wight figs and resins .
May For bread and drink at Edn. in
Francy Newtons Lodging
To servants of boord wages
For Tee from Lewis Pringle in full
of all accounts
To William Robison in Aymouth
in pairt payment of 44| pints
brandy at 42d. pr pint .
For goosberies to botle at 3d. a
pint 2s. 6d., cheries to preserve
at 3d. 600 ....
Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 0 6
0
17
4
0
5
0
0
5
6
0
0
0
4
4
2
6
0
6
6 5 0
2
5
0
0
5
9
0
2
6
0
5
0
0
9
0
0
5
0
0
6
2t^
0
3
0
0
2
0
2
18
0
4
15
0
0 4 0
1714] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 93
[Housekeeping]
July 15 For wild foull ....
To men with 7 horse with 13f bolls
Meall from Jerri s wood .
For 13| bolls Lithgow measure
Meall from Jerriswood at 8 sh.
the boll
For 5 duson of limons to be
Joyce
For 8 fous wheat from Ridbreas
<Ai\j • • • • •
For 11 gallons and a pint brandy
at 27d. pr. pint
For bringing the brandy from
Dunglas ....
For a barrill of Herins from
Hempsead ....
For 5 bolls 4 fous Bear got from
George Newton at 7£ Scots pr
boll .....
To Robert Hume for makeing the
steep Malt ....
For 8 lb. sope 4s., 2 ounce blew
16d
For 3 kishps 2s. . . .
For 3 dusone Arrack 12s. gallon
and packing ....
For 3 lb. Tee and boxes
For 6 fous Malt from Stenrige .
For 4 ston chease from Widow
Wight at 4s.
For 14 lb. courser chease at 3s. .
For a ston Meall for foulls
For drink money for frute
For Scarsburg water 5 dusone
botles ....
Aug. 18 For 8 pecks salt 18 Aug. 10 pecks
Salt .....
[St(
£
srlir
s.
d.
0
5
0
0
1
10
5
10
0
0
5
0
1
16
0
10
0
0
0
2
0
0
16
8
3
10
0
0
5
0
0
5
4
0
2
0
5
19
0
2
16
0
1
3
0
0
16
0
0
2
8
0
1
2
0
15
0
2
0
0
0
9
0
94
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1714
"Housekeeping]
[Sterling]
For swine chease Milk and all
£ s.
d.
Gorg Newton can ask or crave
3 0
0
For corn eaten by swine and
fouls allowed George Newton .
2 0
0
For Bieff from Kelso
0 10
0
For some small things given out
by myself ....
0 7
6
To Wood for cariing
0 2
0
For 12 broom bussoms
0 0
6
Septmr. For a years work payd Will.
Burnit the Couper
0 10
0
For couping L. Rutherfoords
barrills ....
0 2
6
For tinkler work
0 3
0
For 6 bolls Bear from Mr. Gowdy
at 12s. 6d. pr boll for malt
3 15
0
For 7 bolls oats for Meall at 9s.
lOd
3 4
2
For casting 12 darg trufes with
meat .....
0 6
0
For 2 half Barrills of Herin from
1 10
9
For suger at 9d. and at 13d.
comes to ... .
4 1
0
For Allocs and bay Berries
0 2
8
For 2 guess Aples
0 12
8
For pears ....
0 6
0
For sand 2s. 6d.
0 2
6
Oct. 30 For cariages ....
0 12
0
For ry bread 4 loves
0 4
8
For candle 4£ Is. 8d.
0 5
8
For bran Is. 3d., corks Is. 2d. .
0 2
5
For 8 galons Ale the Princes ^
birthday at the Bonfier
0 10
8
For Mr. Wilsons Horse
0 1
2
For a Bea Skep cariing by John
Hope .....
0 1
II. Old s
0
^ The birthday of the Prince of Wales, afterwards George
tyle
10 Nov. N.S.
I7I4]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
95
[Housekeeping]
For sundry things such as sope
candle from James Liedhous
From Day Book the 26 of Nivem-
ber that I left Mellerstaine
For small things given out by
myself
Forcariing Is. 6d. more Is. more 9s
For expence at Faladam and
Dalkieth
For dry fish 8s. Hempsteed
For a lb. Tee from Blair .
For a botle snuff 5s.
For Butter at Hardis Mill
For Aples 4s. 6d., chickens 2s.
tinker at Kelso 2s.
For couper work payd Androw
To Jesper when he went to Edn
with the Horses
Decmr 1 To Charles Ormston in full of al
accounts
For I lb. Jocolet
Edn For washing cloathes 5s. .
For a lb. of Tee from Mr. Blair
For 1 lb. Tee Gilbert Pringle
For suger spices and sundry other
things from Mrs. Olifer
For 300 loods of Colls from the
English side and some expences
in bringing them the great at
6d. the small 3d. at the hill and
what I hired in was eliven pence
small and fourteen great
To Charles Ormston in full of all
accomits ....
To Alexr Lamb Candlemaker in
full of all accounts F.N.
To Baihff Fall in Dumbar in full
accounts R.T. of wines .
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 12 0
22 16 0
0 10 0
0 11 6
0 16 0
0 8 0
0 17 0
0 5 0
0 18 6
0 8 6
0 15 0
0 2 0
4 15 0
0 2 0
0 5 0
0 18 0
0 11 0
8 0 0
9 19 0
0 2 0
7 17
18 2 0
96 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1714
[Housekeeping]
London To Will Robison in full of all
accounts of wines etc. R.T. .
Decmr 18 For drinkmony for the Kings
venison etc.
For a porter to carie it
For boord wages to Kate and Tarn
for ten days ....
30 To account of John Baillies boord
wages was resting him when I
came news powder oyl etc.
For a chaldron of colls from Tod
For 250 billets ....
For seller rent of Cariage of 6
barrill Herins from fiife .
For cotten to be candle
For 3 duson botles Malligo from
Gil. Stewart
For 51 b. 2 fous oates to the horses
<X\j HjX^ • • • • •
For fouls and swine 11 bolls
For 13 bolls oates to straingers
horses ....
For 7 bolls light com at 50d.
For peas to pigeons 9 fows at 15s.
boll .....
For 200 threve stra beside beding
ah OCl* • • • • •
For 12 bolls oats for Meall and
4 fows ....
For 24 bolls more for straingers
horse Meall etc.
For light bear at 5d. pr boll to the
XiOx^O • • • • •
For Ry at 15s.
For Bear 2 bolls at 12s. 6d.
Sterling]
£ s. d.
14 5
0
1 9
0
0 3
6
1 0
0
1 0
0
1 12
0
0 3
0
0 7
0
0 3
6
3 3
4
21 8
4
4 11
8
5 8
4
1 6
8
1 7
0
5 0
0
5 6
8
10 0
0
0 10
0
1 1
0
1 5
0
S. 279 19 6
I7I5]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
97
London, January 1715. Houshold Expences.
[Housekeeping]
For 10 lb. Westfalia Hamb at
lid. pr lb. .
For cloves and Nutmug half a
pound of each at 5s. 6d.
For half a pound cinimon .
For a lb. white peper
For 8 lb. Barhe at 3d. pr lb.
For a litle botle hungary water
For a lb. Bohea Tee 16s. Fergison
For a lb. Beco Tee 24s. Fergison
For I lb. fine green Tee cal'd
Hey son Tee at fergison .
For a lb. firriken of sope
For two Milk .
For a lb. tobaco — Fergison
For 2 duson Arrack at 14s. the
galon Fergison
1st For 2 1 chaldron colls from Tod
For a Tun of Scots Coll .
For 250 billets 3s. 25 brushes
Is. 9d.
For 2 barrills of sope
For Mutton chops Ms. Boyd and
we in the citv
For sope blew 4s. 3d.y<^, blew 3s
more Is. . .
For 2 lb. wax candles 5
For bread 9d., toungs Is., herin
Id -«
For Aples 100 18d., a duson 2d.
i March 1st For a firriken of sope brock up this
day .....
For bread from Day Book from
18 Decmr to the 1st March
For Bear from Day Book from
G
[SterlingI
£ s. d.
0 9 2
0 11 O
0 5 0
0 3 6
0 2 0
0 1 a
0 16 O
14 0
0 8 0
0 0 6
0 0 6
0 2 0
4 4 0
4 0 0
1 16 0
0 4 9
15 6
0 3 0
0 8 3^%
0 5 0
0 1 10j-<^
0 18
18 0
2 17 3
08
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1715
[Housekeeping]
18 Decmr 1714 till the 1st March
1715
For Hoiishold Expences from
Day book from the 18th
Decmr 1714 till the 1st
March 1715
For 3 botles Cinamon water
For 3 cakes Ginger bread 4 lb
6cicn • • • •
For blew 8d. .
For tobaca 2s. Ale 2s. powder Is
dit For 2 chalder of colls from
Ghrame all charges
ditt For 500 billets .
dit For half a Tunn of Scots coll
For blew and starch 3s. 4d.
For wine from a frenchman
For 4 botles of oyl and a half
For cinamon water .
For stacktens drops 2s. Drogs 4s.
For Lisbon suger at 7d. a pound
For the fraught and other ex-
pences of a barill with barly
starch blew and two barrills of
Ap. 20 butter ....
May 13 For 4 lb. powther Ish. 8d., two
wash bals 6d., a comb 6d.
For 4 lb. power at 5 a lb., irise
root powder at 17d.
For 1| chalder of Colls from Tod
For lb. rosted cofiie .
For Balsamick cyrop
For confected pears
For Almonds 6d.
For blew 8d., powd. 5s., 2 month
wash ball 6d., bleck 6d. .
For spice and barly from Mrs.
Abercromby ....
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
5 8 0
37 11 10^4^
0 13 0
0 6 0
0 0 8
0 5 0
3 0 0
0 6 0
0 17 0
0 3 4
4 0 0
0 13 6
0 8 0
0 6 0
0 7 0
1
10
0
0
2
8
0
3
1
2
8
0
0
12
0
0
1
0
0
1
6
0
0
6
0
6
8
0
5
6
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 99
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For 5 weeks washing of great £ s. d.
linins only . . . . 2 3 6
For 2 weeks sope 5s. 10 for wash-
ing 2 gouns and coats 6d. . 0 6 8
For fine suger and 13d. course lofe
at lOd. 2 loves . . . 0 9 11
For fraught of 5 dusone clarit and
a box with prints . . . 0 6 0
For expences of bringing them
out of the ship . . . 0 9 0
13 For a weeks sope another weeks
sope 9 lb. I at 6d. . . 0 4 9
For sope lid. for 3 weeks sope till
22d. June 9s. . . . 0 9 11
For sope from 2d June till 15
August . . . . 15 6
For paper a lb. 3s. 6d., barly 2s. 3 0 5 9
For tobaca 2s., pyps 6d. . . 0 2 6
For a pain of glas to a window . 0 13
For Bear from 1st March till 1st
May 4 15 0
To drink to wrights and chimny
sweap . . , . 0 16
To Tarn youll at Twittenham . 0 10
For sope Is. 3d. . . . 0 13
For tobaca . . . . 0 2 0
To Polwarths man for Spa water
Is. more Is. . . . 0 2 0
For drink bread and cheas to the
scourers, etc. . . . 0 2 6
For sope and sand to scour the
house . . . . . 0 3 0
For speaping all the chimnys of
our new house . . . 0 2 6
For fraught of 2 hampers wine 5s.
other expences 5 . . . 0 10 0
For nailing up the vine tree . 0 18
July 4 For 10 chaldron colls with half a
100 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Housekeeping]
chalder into them being 12
cart fulls 12 seeks each 1|
chaldron more
For 8|- lb. fine suger at 12 j^^d. .
For 6| lb. suger at 9d.
To litle Charles bell Is.
For a lb. wax candle for tobaca
lighting ....
To wonsar park keeper for 2
bucks of the Kings venison
For cariing the 2 bucks from
winsour park
For a duson lb. mold 6 in the lb.
candle .....
For half a Chalder cols owing
Gryms since winter
To Tam at Twettenham and
Hamton Court
For greens to the parlour chimny
For frute 2s. Is. more 3s. .
For triming 10| chalder Cols in
the seller ....
For 12 botles Spa water .
To Charles Hays Nephew ane old
account of backing
For fraught and cariage payd
Mill for 5 dusone Clarit and 4
botles snuff
For cariing my brother Kimer-
ghams box ....
For frute by May Minzies to the
bairens ....
For starching linins and sope
4s. 2d. .....
For pometam ....
For Houshold expences from day
book from the 1st March till the
first May . . . . 32 12 2^\
Sterling]
£ s. d.
16 3 6
0 8 8
0 4 10j%
0 10
0 2
6
2 3
0
0 6
0
0 7
6
0 14
6
0 3
0 1
0 6
0
6
0
0 1
0 15
6
0
0 10
9
1 3
0
0 3
0
1
0 8
0
i
0 4
0 1
\
2
6
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 101
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For Houshold expences from day £ s. d.
book from the 1st of May till
the first of July . . . 32 4 10^^
Aug. 26 For half a pound Bohe Tee from
Mrs. Johnston . . . 0 9 0
To a Butcher for Bieff and
mutton the Bieff at 3d. the
mutton at 3 y^^^^d. pr lb. from the
12 July till the 1st September
Jo: Betson . . . . 7 12 0
To John Wright Backer for bread
and floor, etc. from the first of
March till the Last of August
for the use of Thomas Broun
Backer . . . . 8 2 0
To Ambrose Jackson for Bear from
the first of May till the last of
August at 10s. 2 moneth and
9s. 2 moneth
For — lb. finest suger at 12d. a lb.
For — lb. of courser suger at 9d. j-**^
For — lb. of coursest lofe suger at
oQ. .....
For Lisbon powder suger at 6d. .
For 4 botles Spa water at 14d. a
flask 4 8
For 6 lb. sago
For a lb. Tee 16s., | lb. Tee 12s. 6d
Sep. 10 For 3 Chaldron of Colls to fill the
cole house up . . .
17 For 4 weeks sope till this day
For a lb. tobaca
For 6 botles Spa water
18 For Houshold expence from the
1st July till the last of August
from day book
Sep. 18 For a duson pound 10s. in lb.
candles molded frenchman
7
12
0
0
11
6
0
4
6
0
5
0
0
5
6
0
4
8
0
18
0
1
8
6
4
5
0
0
12
3
0
2
0
0
7
0
22
1
4
0
6
6
102 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Housekeeping]
For 12 botles Spa water .
For a lb. bohea Tee 17s., a lb.
coffie 4s., a lb. Spice 3s.
For 17j-*Y lb. westfalia hamb at
lid. .....
For 4 lb. Bohea Tee Fergison
For 12 lb. candle
For 2 lb. Indigo bought in
Scotland ....
For 56 lb. of Starch bought at
Edn. .....
For 7 stone Pearl barly bought at
Edn. .....
For 2 ston shield peas bought at
Edn. .....
For a barrill and pock to put the
abovsd things in
For a botle of snuff
For a bill loadening and putting
them in the ship .
For a barrill for the butter Is.
payd Marion Hempsteed fishing
For cariing and boxes Is. lOd.
more lOd. ....
For a hamb at 14d. a lb. a botle
oyl 3sh. 6d. ....
Octr. 1 For 100 billets a string of roots 50
brushes ....
For a dusone Spa watter .
For setting 2 hogsheads wine by
Mr. Douglas's cuper
To Captain Douglases Maid for
Tee, etc. ....
For 2 Dusone Mold Candles 10 in
the lb. .
For past to wash hands, etc. and
to Mrs. Colvile
Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 14 0
1 4
0
0 15
4 4
0 6
7
0
6
1 0
0
0 18
8
1 8
0
0 5
4
0 2
0 4
0
6
0 4
0
0 15
0
0 2
8
0 19
10
1 1
0 14
6
0
0 10
0
0 2
6
0 13
6
0 4
0
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 103
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For a botle spirits Is. 8d. . . . 0 18
Oct. 28 For 7 lb. 14 ounce
suger at 13 . 0 8 6|
For 6 lb. 6 do.
suger at g^^d. 0 5 0^^ 0 15 S^
For 4 lb. suger at 5d. 0 18
Nov. 8 For 2 dusone Mold Candles 6 and
10 in the lb. at G^^d. . . 0 13 0
For a dusone Spa water 14s., half
a lb. Tee 8s. . . . 12 0
Ditto 28 For a thousand billets 12s. 5
brushes 3s. 6d. . . . 0 15 6
Ditt. For sope from the 23 of Sepr till
the 28 Novr . . . . 13 8
For sope more gote in the abovesd
10 weeks . . . . 0 2 0
For powder 2s. 6d. more lOd. . 0 3 4
For saffron 4s. 2d. lead ure
6d 0 4 8
For genever and Rubarb 3s. lOd. 0 3 10
For Tee 9s. 6 wax candles 3 lb.
12s. 6d 12 0
For a Hogshead of Clarit from
Archbald Hamilton . . 30 0 0
For a Hogshead of Clarit from
Major Boyd . . . . 30 0 0
For I lb. Tee . . .- . 0 8 0
For 13 lb. suger at 9|d.
pr lb. . . 0 10 3 j^
For 11 lb. 10 ounces suger
at 123Ajd. pr lb. . 0 12 1 ^^ 2 13 1
For 16 lb. powder suger
at 6d. 18 lb 6 ou at
9d. . . . 1 10 8
For a Tun of Scots Coll . . 1 16 0
For 6 botles champyne at 7s., 2
botles Harmtage 12s. Dutches 2 14 0
104
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Housekeeping]
For 10 dusone botles Port wine
from Bonnet
For 16 lb. resins at 4d., 8 lb.
curran: S^-^^d.
Decmr.31 For Bear from Ambrose Jackson
from 1st Sptb. till the date
here at 9s. per barrill and a
croun more for stronger Ale .
To John Betson Butcher from
1 Septmr. till 31 Decmr.
To Arther Grumball Backer from
1 Sepmr till 31 Decmr. 19s.
For Houshold expenc from day
Book from 1 Sepmr. till 31
Decmr. ....
For sope from 28 Novr. till the
last of Decmr.
For wine from Gilbert Black
For miscount page 352
[1715
[Sterling
£ s. d.
9 0 0
0
9 0
7 8 0
18 14 0
5 19 3
48 17 0
0 15 0
22 0 6
10 0
S. £441
4 lOA-
London, January 1st, 1716 Account of Housekeeping
For 4 lb. powder Is. 8d. more
2s. 2d 0 3 10
For a weeks sope 2s. 6d. . . 0 2 6
21 For 3 weeks frut 4s. 6d. Bought
myself . . . . .046
ditt For Candle 6 dusone 6s. and 6
dusone 10s. in the lb. . . 3 18 0
For snuff at 4s. the lb. . . 0 4 0
For sope this moneth . . 0 9 8
For a lb. paper 3s. mace Is. 3d. . 0 4 3
For \ lb. orange pill \ lb. cordi-
citron , . . • 0 16
:i7i6]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
105
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For 1 lb. Tee l£ Is. 6d., cimone £ s. d.
water4, paste 18d.,pamatuni Is. 18 6
Febr. 1 For 12 lb. powder 5s. 4washballs
1 0 6 0
For washing my brothers shiets . 0 5 0
For 4 ounces Rubarb at 18d. ounce 0 6 0
For 3 lb. Pistashi nuts at Mr
Toom's . . . . 0 6 0
For 2 weeks 6s. 9d. news . . 0 6 9
For fraught of 3, 8 gallon barrils
with Meall Berwick . . 0 7 6
For a bote to Hungerfoord stairs 0 2 0
For a cart to Broad Streat with
the meal . . . . 0 1 10
febr. 10 For a porter to help with it 3d.
warffage 4 . . . . 0 0 7
For a lb. Bohe Tee from Mr.
Hamly . . . . 0 18 0
For a lb. green Tee . . . 0 16 0
For a dusone Nutmugs . . 0 5 0
Foralb. GreenTeeMr. Hamlie . 0 16 0
For a litle barrill Sturgen from
Mr. Heart . . . . 0 8 0
For ane old account of Spa water 1 12 0
For a suger lofe at 12d j^^. . 0 8 0
For sope for this moneth . . 0 11 3
;March 8 For 2 lb. | all sorts dry sweat-
meets at 3s. 6d., paste at 2s. 6d.
I lb 0 10 0
For 1 lb. al sorts white confits . 0 3 0
For a box prunellas 1^ lb. . . 0 2 0
For 3 glases wate ^ sweatmeets at
6d 0 16
For I lb. waffers . . . 0 10
For a suger lofe at 12dj4j. a lb.
weight 6| lb. . " . . 0 6 9
^ Wet, moist.
106
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1716.
[Housekeeping]
For 4 ounces Coffie powder
For I ounce Nutmugs
For sope this raoneth
For powder and hungary water
For Billets and brushes
For 25 brushes
For a Hamb from Gumly at 10s
6d. a lb.
For 2 lb. Bohea Tee
For half a lb. Tee
31 For Bieff and Mutton for 3
Monethes payd John Betson
Butcher Bieff 3d. Muton 3d 3%.
shins 8d. . . . .
March 31 For bread in three moneths from
Arther Grumble
For 1| chalder Colls from Ghrames
For a suger lofe
Ap. 16 For 6 duson of Mold candle 6 in
the lb. at 7d.
For I lb. Tee Mrs. Abercrumby in
full of all acctts
For Candle 10s. in the lb. 3 duson
For a lb. Tee from Mr. Hambly .
30 For sope in this moneth .
For Coffie 18d. oranges 3s.
For Coach Is. .
For News 2s. 6d. plays operas .
For letters 6d., 2d. .
For suger ....
For wash balls 6 . . .
May For 5 Dusone Botles Clarit got
from Major Boyd
For suger at 12d. a lb.
For sope in this moneth
For 25 lb. Jacolet made by Mr.
Scots orders
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 1
6
0 0
5
0 15
0
0 3
6
0 12
0
0 3
0
0 10
0
1 16
0
0 9
0
15 1 0
5 14 0
2 2 0
0 7 9
2 2 0
0
9
0
0
19
0
0
16
0
0
14
6
0
4
6
0
1
0
0
2
6
0
0
8
0
8
6
0
1
6
8
6
0
0
7
6
0
13
6
.530
I7i6] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 107
THousekeeping
"Sterling
June 1st
For 121 Chalder Colls from
£ s.
d.
Ghrames ....
17 1
2
For 2 botles Champain 9s., 2 botles
Burgundy 8s., Chovet .
0 17
0
For 3 gallons Rack Mr. Hambly
2 8
0
For Id. botles
0 2
6
For a lb. Tee, Hambly
0 16
0
For a du. Stockton drops 13 or 14
to the dusone
0 9
0
For 6 flasks Clarit
1 4
0
For a kit of three salmonds
the salmond . . 0 15 0
For the kitt boyling and
-.
veniger, etc. . . 0 4 0
For frought to London 0 2 0
1 1
0
For 2 botles Champaine
0 9
0
For 2 botles Champaine
0 9
0
For suger and 12 botles Spa water
1 3
6
For suger ....
0 18
10
For sope in this Moneth .
0 16
9
For 6 flasks Clarit Muns : Chovet
1 4
0
For 4 botles Champaine
0 18
0
For 3 gallons Rack from Hamly
2 8
0
July 16
To the Keeper of Wonsour Park
for a Buck . .
1 1
0
To the Carier for bringing it
home .....
0 3
0
For powder ....
0 6
0
For a lb. of Tee . . .
0 16
0
To lose at Carts
0 14
0
Pdin
For a hogshead Clarit
from Gilbert Stewart 18£ 0 0
Scotland
For french duty 7£ 3 J^^d.
custome house dues
9s. 6d. . . . 7 12 7{\f
For a duble cask and
packing . .07 lO^Hj
26 0
6
For fraught 10s. London duty ■
108
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1716
[Housekeeping]
l£ 2s. 6d. other expences given
out by Hendry Mille 12s. 9d. .
July 31 To the Park keeper for a Buck a
guiny the carier 3s.
For spermacity 18d., Lozanges 2s
saffron 3s. 6d., Baino Rachel (
and spice Is. 6d. .
To the servants at Newgat
Prison 2s. 6d.^
For sope this moneth
For suger l£ 2s., oyl 6s. 6d.
For Meat bought in the Market
August For sope the first week
To poket
For suger
For Mrs. Smithes glass
For sope
For cheries to Brandy
For sope to scour blankets, etc
when I was at bath
For cleansing the house of office
For meat to 4 servants
when I was 9 weeks at
bath from 8 Aug. till 8
Octr. from Betson 0 15
For bread in that time 1 2
For candle chease roots
etc. in that time . 0 6
For Bear . . 0 18
For sope and sand to the house
while at bath
For Meat, bread, bear, and all pro-
visions at the Bath from the 9
August till the 12 of October .
For Meat and Lodging going and
coming from Bath being 9 days
on the roads
' See p. lii.
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
2 5 9
14 6
0 14 6
0 2 6
12 7
18 6
0 18 0
0 4 6
0 2 6
0 8 0
0
0
1 9
2 2
0 8 0
0 14 0
0 15 9
2
2
6
0 3 1 10
0 3 8
38 0 0
11 18 0
Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 11 0
8
0
10
16
0
0
1
16
0
6
0
1
2
0
0
0
4
6
8
0
0
1
10
6
1716] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 109
[Housekeeping]
For 24 lb. white sope brought
from Bath ....
For washing linins at Bath and
starching ....
For a lb. Tee ....
For fraught of 8 lb. green Tee
from Holland
For 8 lb. Tee bought from Mr.
Jerrard at Raterdam
For scouring the Hamer cloath .
For fraught of ginger bread from
Lord Bining ....
For Modera gote from James
Douglas ....
For a hamb at 12d. another at
14d. a pound
For a Hogshead Pontack wine
bought at Bourdaux by my
Lord Stairs all expences came
to .....
To Hendry Mille for bringing it
home .....
To the Banio for Rachy .
For 5 dusone botles Clarite gote
from Major Boyd to send to
Bath 7£ 10s. 16s. botles and
corks .....
Oct. 17 For suger at 8d. 5s. and 6d. fine at
12d. 6s. 6d
For 4 dusone of lb. Candle 10s. in
the lb. at 6 j^^^d.
For 7 duson lb. Mold Candles 6 in
lb. at 7d. ....
For 2 lb. Bohe Tee .
For a dusone 12s. in
For 7 lb. suger
Oct. 30 For 5 Duson 6 botles Clarit from
Major Boyd . . . . 8 6 0
34
16
7- 9
0
10
0
0
8
0
8
6
0
0
12
0
1
6
0
2
8
0
2
0
0
0
6
0
0
7
0
110
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1716
ditt.
31
[Housekeeping]
For billits 15s. 6d. .
For expences of meat going to
Windsor ....
For drinkmoney at Mrs. John-
stons in Twitnem
For 2 botles Hermitage 8s. 2 botles
champaine 10 . . .
For confections to diner .
For 2 botles cinamon water
Oct. 20 For a muchkine botle snuff
For suger at 8d.
For 2 bushal charcoll
For Bread flour, etc., payd Arther
Grumbald from the first of
Aprill till the last of October .
For Meat payd John Betson
Butcher from Ap. 1st till the
last of October
To Mr. Tod for Bear gote from
Ambros Jacson from January
1st till 1st August
Novr. 6 For a fine suger lofe at 12d.
cL Ik) • • • • •
For cooling seads Is. Ales Milk
xOS* • • • • •
For glasing the House brock by
servants ....
For pomatum Is.
For strong Ale from .
For sope 4s. 6d.
For sope 3s., 3s., 7s., 4s. .
For powder 6s., Is., 3d.
For 6 monethes window tax at
Michelmas 1716
For a hamercloath 2| yd. at
6s. 9d., lace 3d. and 2d. lining
3s. making 5s.
Nov. 16
wrong
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 15 6
15 0
0 10
0
0 18
0 12
0 8
0 3
0 4
0 9
0
0
0
8
8
0
8 12
0
24 12
0
17 12
0
0 5
11
0 17
0
0 7
0 1
0 12
0 4
0 17
0 7
6
0
0
6
0
3
0 15
0
1 9
4t%
I7I7]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
111
[Housekeeping]
friday For 6 duson candle 10s. a lb. and a
Decmr. 21 Id. to R. and M.
For expence of foul, fish and other
provisions from day book
To John Betson Butcher for Bieff
and Muton in Novr. and Decmr.
To Arther Grumble for Bread in
Novr. and Decmr.
For salmond from Berwick
For fraught Meall, etc.
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
2 5 6
149 7 0
10 18 6
3 0
1 5
1 10
8
6
0
S. 506 6
0 3
London. January 1st, 1717. Account of Household
expences.
For 14 lb. fine suger
For 2 lb. at lid. 2 lb. at 8d.
powderd suger
For 2 lb. resins at 4d., 2 lb. currins
at 5dy^^. 2 lb. pruns 3d^^r. •
For ane ounce Cofiie powder
For 3 dusone Candles 6s. in the
pound at 7d.
11 For a woman to wash Is, and 2
weeks sope 7s.
For a thousand Billets and half a
hunder Brushes
For powder ....
For 2 lb. rise lOd., 2 lb. barly 5d., a
lb. suger 5d., Mace 8d. .
For a woman to wash Is. 4 lb. sope
For a lb. Tee from Fergison
For a barrill of sope from ]Mr.
West a lb. salt and peas
Feb. 4 For 4 lb. | sope 2s. 3d., 6s., 3s. .
0
14
0
0
3
2
0
2
2
0
0
5
1
1
0
0
8
0
0
16
0
0
3
0
0
2
4
0
3
0
1
2
0
1
7
6
0
11
3
1 0
0
0 8
0
0 10
0
112 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For half a Hogshead £ s. d.
strong Clarit L.P. 10 0 0
For half a Hogshead
smaller at . . 7 0 0
For the French duty
payd by Lewis
Pringle . . 7 12 0
For botles corks and
botleing . . 2 10 0
For 3 casks and pack-
ing 22d. and 2 botles
in all . . . 0 7 6 27 9 6
For frought
For suger suger [sic] and fruts
For 2 botles cinamon water
For 4 lb. wax candle 10s.
For fraught of 2 punchens Meall
and the corper . . . 0 10 0
For bring them from the ship all
expences . . . . 0 6 0
For pometam 2s., more Is., eme-
ticks Is. . . . . 0 4 0
15 For 2 dusone candle 10s. in the
pound for R. and M. . . 0 13 0
For fraught and other expences by
Hendry mills acctt for the
Kinary and herin from Duke
Montrose . . . . 12 0
For 2 hambs from Matucks at 13d.
pr lb. .
For 2 botles cinamon water
March For sope 3s., 3s., 3s., 3s. .
18 For a thousand billets and
hundred brushes .
For suger 7s. 6d. 10s. 3s. 6d.
For a Hogshead syder 2£ 5 cate
etc. bring in 2s. 6d. . . 2 7 6
31 March To John Betson Butcher for Bieff
•
1 0
0
•
0 8
0
•
0 12
0
I
m
0 16
0
m
1 1
0
I7I7]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
113
ditto
Aprill
May
May 1
28
June 4
July 11
Housekeeping^
[St
erling]
£
s.
d.
and Mutton in 3 monethes
14
8
0
To Arther Grumble for bread flowr
etc. in three monethes from
1 Janr. till 1st Aprill
4
8
0
For sope 4s, 3d. 3s. 9d.
0
10
&
For powder 3s. Almond powder at
a 4d. p lb. 1
0
4
0
To a Duson of candle
0
6
6
For 3 J Chalder of Colls gote in the
2d March ....
6
10
a
For sope Is. Id. 4s. 2d.
0
5
3
For champain ....
1
8
0
For 7 Chardron of colls bought by
Mr. West ....
10
0
0
For sope 3s. lOd. 14s. lOd.
0
18
8
For wax candles 2s. 6d.
0
2
6
For chesier cheas at 3d.^ a lb.
0
7
n 8
For a hamb at 6d. a lb. .
0
8
4
For suger at lid.
0
10
7
For a lb. Bohea Tee
1
2
0
For Spa water pd Captain Kirk-
ton
3
12
6
For 2 dusone of small candles .
0
13
0
For sope 5s. 2d. 3s. lOd. 4s. lid.
4s. 4d. starch 6d. 5s. 2d.
1
3
11
For Candle from Wansour at 6
and j^v pr. lb. . . .
3
5
6
For pils Is., pills 18d.
0
2
6
For starch 6d.
0
0
6
For 4 botles Arrack from Mr.
Hambly ....
1
1
6
For 12 lb. powder 6s.
0
6
0
For sope 4s. 6d., starch 6d. 4s. 4d.,
4s. 6d. 3s. 8 strch Is.
0
18
6
For 2 dusone Candles
0
13
0
For lose by James Grieve he aither
lost or miscounted
1
0
0
H
114 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Housekeeping] [Sterling]
For the cariage of a Buck and £ s. d.
drinkmoney . . . 14 0
For Bieff and Muton from Betson
Butcher in Apr. May and June
in full of all accounts . . 12 0 0
For Bread from Arther Grumble
from the 1st of Aprill till the
14th of July . . . 5 6 0
For white bear 5 barrils at 10s. . 2 10 0
For the custom and charge of 57
lb. hambs sent from Holland by
my Lord Binning . . 13 0
For a thousand billets | hunder
brushes . . . . 0 16 6
For 2 wash balls 4d. Drinkmoney
2s. 6d 0 2 8
For 3 botles Arack more 2 botles . 110 0
For some small things by James 0 4 0
Aug, 5 For sweeping chinny . . 0 16
To Arther Grumble for bread since
14 June . . . . 15 0
For Bear from Sam: Willis from
29 Aug. 1716 till the 5 of August
1717 21 2 9
For I hogshead Clarit from Alexr
Baird 18 0 0
For some things bought by May
Minzies . . . . 0 16 0
For six kipper Mrs. Dalrimple . 0 10 0
For a box and shiping the fish . 0 16
For 6 Ling. Fall . , . 0 5 7
For 4 stone chease from Tweddal 0 13 4
For ninteen ston Pork at 2s. lid.
pr ston barrills for salting etc.
12 toungs 8d. salting 9d. . 3 17 3
For Cheas from Newton and
Wight tenants at 4s ston . 10 0
For powder and wash balls . 0 13 10
[Sterling"
£
s.
d.
0
6
0
3
0
0
2
10
9
0
2
6
1717] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 115
[Housekeeping]
For tobaca 2s., snuff 4s.
For Candle while I was in Scot-
land spent in Lond: besids
l£ 15s. worth left in the House
For sope at London while I was in
Scotland ....
For seting razors 2s. 6d. .
To the Coachman and servants
expences at Barnet . . 0 4 0
For expence of the servents at
London from the 13 Aug: till
the 17 of Semtm"" .
For bring the Barbatos waters and
sweatmeats ....
For 7 Chaldron of Colls in octo^r .
For 2 ,1b. tobaco ....
Edenburg For wine from Gilbert and Lewis
Aug. 17 Pringle ....
For Meat from the Cooks etc.: from
18 Aug: till the last of Deem'" .
For washing ....
For Confections Plumcaks and
Bisket from Mrs. Fenton at my
Rachys mariage
For 100 lb. weight starch at Edn
For 100 lb, powder .
For 21 pint Brandy Mcnill at
2s. 8d. pr pint
For dry cask to it and puting
aboord all .
For Casks to powder and starch .
For expences of servants and
horses traveling about in 6
monethes ....
For 4 botles snuff
For 150 lb. Pork at 4d. lb. salt, etc.
to be hung .
5
0
0
1
1
0
10
15
0
0
4
0
16
0
0
34
18
0
6
9
0
15
3
0
1
16
8
1
16
0
2
16
0
0
6
10
0
2
0
8
13
6
1
0
0
2
14
0
116
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1717
[Housekeeping]
For Meat, drink, coll, and candle
the two times we was at Meller-
staine ....
For a pice of Clarite from Major
Boyd . . . .
For confections in full of all
C4'V/V' • • • • •
For a Doe at Christenmas .
wrong For lose one Guinys at London .
wrong To the Kings footmen and
Beefeaters ....
To Shiriff at Ginelkirk was owing
by servants ....
For locks and bands by flint to
doors and gates at Meller.to^ .
For snuff sent to London by James
Carren .....
For Meall to the Barnman Meller
For Meall to the poor at Meller-
staine ....
For servants expences in Pate
Hunters ....
For 16 bolls oats at 10s. made in
Meall and sent to London in
1715, 16 and 1717
For our carte horse at Meller-
staine in 3 year 10 bols .
For 6 bolls ots in meall while I
was in Scotland
For Boord wages to the barman at
7s. 4d. a moneth .
From the Day book for 11
JMonethes ....
Sterling^
£ s. d.
14
4 6
30
0 0
3
3 0
0
10 6
0
15 0
1
1 0
0
5 0
0
10 0
2
2
0 3^^^
7 8
1
7 2
0
5 0
8
0 0
5
0 0
3
0 0
4
8 0
364
5 8-1%
175 2 6^
S. £539 8 2^4
1693-95] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 117
To Servants fies
1693 To Margrat Flimin her fie .
Apr^i To Sandy Frazer in full of his fies
May 2d. To Ann Faa in full of her fies
Ditto 7. For cloathes to servants .
To fieing and arls to servants
To Isabell Johnston
Sept^ 6 To Sandy Corbett in full of his fies
To David Makeom quhich pays all
his fies
To Babi Tamson in full of all her
fies .....
Jun. To Mary Sincklar her fie .
1694 Jun. To Nany Christy of her fie
To Nany her shoes for Whit. 94 ,
For shirts to John Broun
For Crises nurses goun
Septr To Shusan Brown for her shoes
Mertimas 94 .
To Shusan of fie .
For shoes to Davi Nickelson and
to John Broun
For making cloathes to the men
Novr 26 To Nany Christy of fie .
To David Nickelson in full of his
fie
Deem'' 14 To Sara Semple in full of her
fies .....
To Shusan her shoes for Whit. 95
To Grisies nurs in full of her fie .
1695 To Nany Chrf^ her shoes for Mert.
Febr. 23d.To her of fie 10s. to her 6lb. 8
For stokins to Davi lib. 3s. a hat
to John 18 .
May To Nany for shoes for Whit. 95 .
To Nany lib. 6 . . .
Scots]
£
s.
d.
18
0
0
12
0
0
18
0
0
18
0
0
18
18
0
2
18
0
6
3
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
8
6
0
4
0
0
1
8
0
2
2
0
6
8
0
1
4
0
2
0
0
4
8
0
8
4
0
12
0
0
38
0
0
60
0
0
1
6
0
50
0
0
1
6
0
6
18
0
2
1
0
1
6
0
1
6
0
118
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1695
[Servants^
Scots]
£ s.
d.
For helping the mens cloathes
2 10
0
To Adam Owin a rest of fies
owing by my mother
39 6
0
For stokins to Johny 12s., shoes
to him lib. 4s. .
1 16
0
Jun. 26 To Nany Chr. 12s. .
0 12
0
July To my Robis nurs
August 9 To An Forrist
4 0
0
Sept. To Ann Forrist
8 0
0
To Shusan shoes for Mer* 95
1 6
0
For shoes to John
0 18
0
Novt. Ist.For helping mens cloathes
0 18
0
To Mary Marchall of fie .
9 6
0
To Nany her shoes Mer* 95
1 6
0
Decmr. To Nany of fie
3 0
0
To Frances Newton per recept to
John Wight ....
45 0
0
To Frances Newton for shoes
6 0
0
S.
358 6
0
To Servants fies 1696
To An Forrist
January
It. caried from the — page
Aprill
To her of her fie
July
To her ....
To her ....
Decmr.
To her ....
To Shusan Broun
January
It. caried from — page
16
To her of fie
To her lib. 10s. Febr. 10 to her 14
Aprill To her her shoes for Whit. 96
12 0 0
12 0 0
2 10 0
8 0 0
6 6 0
5 16 0
2 4 0
2 4 0
16 0
1696] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 119
[Servants]
To her of her fies
21 To her lib. 4s. ...
Septm. To her for shoes for Mertimas 96
Octor. 1 To her .....
To Mr. Robison for 16 ells stuff e to
her .....
To Nany Christy
January It. caried from — page
15 To her of her fie . . .
Febr. To her .....
July To her her shoes for Whitsunday
«7\J • • • • •
To her 2lb. 2s. ...
Octor. 7 To her .....
To Rachys nurs for her fie
To Francy Newton caried from
Febr. 10 For shoes to Johny and brehes
helping ....
Aprill To Francy for shoes 2tb. 8
For a coat to Tam 6tb. 18s.
stokins and shoes to him and a
wastcoat . . . . 9 8 0
For blew stokins to Tam itb. Is.
briches to him 2tb. . . 3 10
For a hat to Francy and dresing to
him ....
For shoes to Tam Itb. 9s. a shirt to
him, shoes Itb. lis.
Decmr. 1 To Francy Newton .
For briches to Piter Broun 2tb. 8
in this year
Scots
£ s.
d.
4 19
0
1 4
0
1 7
0
1 11
6
12 16
0
33 6
0
4 0
0
2 4
0
1 9
0
2 2
0
3 0
0
40 0
0
45 0
0
1 13
0
2 8
0
4 16
0
3
3 14
0
60 0
0
2 8
0
S. 192 0
0
120 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1697
[Servants] [Scots]
To servants fies 1697
Mertimas 1694, Ann Forrist her
fie £24 00 00
£ s. d.
Item, brought from pagees . 040 16 00
Janury To her 006 10 00
Aprill 21stTo her 003 07 00
Agust 1st Item, to her . . . . 014 16 00
Item, to John Rainalds for her 002 08 00
Mertimas '97 Item, to her quhich pays her
fie and shoes . . . 016 12 00
Candlmas 1694, Shusan Broun fie
in the year £16 00 00
Item, brought from page
Item, to her shoes for Whitsunday
'97 001 08 00
May 24th Item, to her . . . . 005 16 00
July 8 Item, to her . . . . 000 14 00
Item, payd my sister for hangins
she got from them . . 007 18 00
Mertimas 1693. Nany Christy in
the year £16 00 00
Item, brought from page . 045 17 00
Item, to her shoes for Whitsunday
'97 001 06 00
NovT. 1697 Item, to Jean Brown her full fie
and shoes for 3 quarters . 013 04 00
Ditto Item, to John Innis his full fie for
half a year . . . . 009 00 00
Ditto Item, to James Carrin his fie for a
quarter .... 004 10 00
To menservants cloathes
1697] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 121
[Servants]
Item, stokins and shoes to Tam
Herrit .....
Item, 2 runing wastcoats 8 ells at
14s. per ell, linen to them and
draurs .....
Item, making the wastcoats with
butons of the same
Item, for making a p[air] drawers
2s. mending 4s. .
Item, a plush cap iti. 8s. shoes to
Rob 2ti. 4s. .
Item, stokins to John Inis lli. 12
shoes to him 2ti. 4 bootmending
loS. .....
For mendings lOsp. to arls to
Jamie and fieing 14s. 6d., 10s.
For 4 ells I blew cloath at 7s. 6d.
For cloth to a groms coat 2 ell | at
8s. 6d. sterling
For blew cloath for a groms big
coat 3 ells at 9s. 6d.
To 4| ells blew serg for linin, and
5 ells yellow at 16s.
To yellow for facing and 3d. u
hair, buttons, and 14 ells serg
16d. .....
To silk and threed and buttons per
Francy Newtons acount
For blew facing Iti. 10s. molde to
buttons ....
To John Hume for making, to
acount 5H. 5s.
For cloathes making to Georg
Taylor .....
For John Inises coat and Robs
making ....
For a hat and string to Rob: lli.
7 shoes to him iti. 10s. .
£
[Scots]
s. d.
004
00
00
008
00
00
001
00
00
000
06
00
003
12
00
004
09
00
001
14
06
019
16
00
012
18
00
017
02
00
007
12
00
013
16
00
009
00
00
002
00
00
005
05
00
002
00
00
002
04
00
002
17
00
122 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1697
[Servants]
For 7 ells blew cloath for chair
coats at 3ti. 3s. per ell .
For blew serg to Johns coat linin
To my childs nurs to acount
For the servants mornings dress-
ing .....
To John Hume for making cloathes
quhich pays all precidings
For furnitur to cloathes per Mr. J.
Hums acount . . .
To Francis Newton per recept
[Scots
£
s.
d.
022
01
00
002
00
00
008
14
00
010
00
00
008
06
00
10
18
0
100
00
0
S. 367 0 0
Edenburgh, 1700, charg of servants. Deb: to cash.
Gawin Cluther
January To him in cash and cloathes
Francis Brumigham
For cloathes to him .
9
15
0
12
0
0
6
0
0
54
0
0
Judith Malbank
Fbry. To her in cash ....
To her in full of her fie
James Cannell
His wage is in mony in the year
£36. All cloathes except linins.
To him for 3 month month he
came befor the tarme . . 15 0 0
To him for a sadle he lost . . 5 16 0
To him 16s., more 14s., more 12s.
he keep't . . . . 2 2 0
James Carrin
His wages in the year is of mony
£24.
8d. To him in cash 2ti. 18 6 . . 2 18 6
To hime more Iti. . . . 10 0-
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
123
May
[Servants]
Nany Christy
To her for shoes
To her her fie in full
[Scots]
£ s. d.
18 0
40 0 0
Dina Ridpath
Her wages is 20 pounds in the
year and shoes 22 16
To her iti. 8s. more 1 il. 8s. more
2ti. 2s. . . . ,
To her in full of her fies .
Hellin Garner
Her fie is in the year 16ti. and her
shoes 18 16.
To her for her gown .
To her cariar 2ti. more to her 3ti. 6
Janit Robison
To her in full of all her wages
Margrat Ingles
To her in full of all her wages
Cloathes to the men.
To James Carrins shoes 2ti. 18s.
Cannei stokins and shoes 2ti.
XOo* ■ • • • •
To Carrins shoes 2ti. 18s. and
cloathes makins 12s.
For serges to them and yellow
cloath per accumpts
For hats to them
For serg 7ti. 2d. Cannells frok
2ti. 6. Carrins shoes 2ti. 2
Cannels shoes Iti. 16s. Franks
shoes Iti. 16s.
4 18 0
17 18 0
6
8
0
5
6
0
12
0
0
18
0
0
5 16
0
3 10
0
61 12
0
6 0
0
11 10
0
3 12
0
124 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1700
[Servants]
[Scots]
For cloath to servants at the
£ s. d.
Pa[r]liment^
16 0 0
Georg Trumble
His fie is in the year 22ti. 2 pairs
shoes and stokins £26 and a
few of bear
18 0
To him in mony
5 0 0
To him for shoes and stokins
1 19 0
To him a furlit of oats
10 0
331 16 6
To John Wight for this year £40 40 0 0
S. 371 16 6
Edenburg, 1701. Servants cloathes. Deb: to Cash.
To Francis Brummigham when he
went away . . . . 20 0 0
To Cannell and Carrins shoes . 3 18 0
To a taylor 6s. skins to ther
briches iti. 6s. taylor iti. 4s. . 2 16 0
To account for stokins etc. payd
Ms. Al)ercrumby . . . 8 0 0
For a sword and belt to Georg
Edger .....
For boots to Georg Edgar
Octobr. For a hatt to Canell iti. 6s. for
bonnits to the men 17s. 6d. .
For pladin to Black 6s. 8d.
For shoes to Isabel! Lamb iti. lis.
For a coat and shirts to Tam
Plendarlith . . . . 4 5 4
3
18
0
5
17
0
2
3
6
0
6
8
1
11
0
* At the Riding of the Parliament the members for the shires rode each
accompanied by two footmen. See note p. 224.
C70I] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 125
Servants^
Scots]
For linin to runing drawers 15s.
£
s.
d.
makeing cloathes Iti. 18
2
13
0
For stokins to Canell and runing
2ti
2
0
0
For shoes to Georg Edgar .
1
16
0
For briches to Cannell iti. 16s. for
serg at 16s.
4
16
0
For 17^ ells blew livery cloath at
85
0
0
For stuf to be a frok to George
Edgar .....
2
0
0
For threed ....
0
6
10
For 19 days work of a taylour at
4s. Georges coat 2ti. 8 .
6
8
0
For silk and moolls .
1
10
0
i:
159
5
4
Edenburgh, servents wages. Deb: to Cash 1701.
Katharin Robison came to my
service at Whitsunday 1700,
her fie in the j^ear is £48
July 8 To her 12 0 0
August To her in England and when we
went ther for goun rubans and
2 shi. sterling more, goun 54ti.
ruban 2ti. 18s. . . . 58 18 0
This stuf taken to myself so could
not be rekoned to her.
Grisell Robisone came to me
Mertimas 1700 her fie in the
year is £24 0 0
For perfiting her in sowing . 12 0 O
James Carrin came to my service
at Whitsunday 1699 his fie in
the year is £24 0 0
126 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1701
[Servants] [Scots]
I give him all his cloathes £ s. d.
except linins
May To him iti. 10s. To him 8!i. . 9 10 0
To him when he came first home
again . . . . . 8 0 0
July 8 To him 14s. 6d. . . . 0 14 6
To him of fie from Mertimas 1701
in the year £30 0 0
Decmr. To him . . , . . 3 5 0
James Cannel cochman came to
my service at Whitsunday
1700 his fie in the year £36 0 0
I give his all cloathes except
linins
May
To him .....
86
18
0
To him 9s. ... .
0
9
0
Jean Boge came to my service,
Martimas 1700, her fie and
buntith is £22 16 0
To her .....
1
8
0
For her shoes iti. 6s. To her
iti. 5s. .
2
11
0
To her .....
10
0
0
Octor.
Georg Edgare came to my ser-
vice Lammas 1701, his fie is in
fie the year £36 0 0
August To him in England . . . 19 15 0
Agnis Christy came back to my
service at Lambis 1701, her
fie and bountith in the year
£22, 16s.
Feb. To her Iti. 8s. To her iti. 18s. 6d.
To her 14ti. . . . 17 6 6
1704] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 127
Servants^
[Scots]
Georg Trumble barnman came
£ s. d.
to me Mertimas 1700, his fie
stokins shoes in the year is £26.
A furHt of bear
18 0
To him 12ti. a furht of bear
12 19 0
To him 2li. 10s. more 6ti. more
14s. 6d. more 6s. 6d., Novr.
22d. lOti
19 6 6
Hellin Garner came to me Marti-
mas 1699, her fie and shoes is
in the year £18 16.
To her lii. 10s. To her Iti. 6s.
To her 5li. 10s. quhich complits 8 6 0
S. 234 14 6
5
16
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
5
17
0
76
4
0
15
12
0
Edenburg, January 1704. Servants Wages. Deb: to cash.
Katharin Robison
May 20 To her 2 dollars
To her .....
To her in March
To her .....
To Francis Newton on her accumpt
To Lapairl on her accumpt
Grisell Robison came at Merti-
mas 1703 ; her fie in the
year, £24 0 0
To her fie in full of all she can
crave 24 0 0
Margrate Carr, came to my ser-
vice at Whitsunday 1703, her
fie in the year is £20 0 0
Janr. 20 To her £l lining her goun 8s. . 18 0
128 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1704
[Servants] [Scots]
To Francy Newton on her ac- £ s. d.
cumpt . . . . . 7 9 0
To her by Katharin £3, 16s. 6d.,
more £4, 6s 8 2 6
To stuf for a goun £15, 4s., more
£2, 18s., more £2, 2s. 6d.,
£1, 13s 6 13 a
Mary M'Intosh
To her by Kat: £l, 14s. 6d. . 1 14 &
To her in full of her fie . . 54 0 O
Jean Cuningham came to my
service at Christinmas 1703
for chambermaid, her fie £18
0 0 ; her shoes in the year is
£2 18 0.
To Jean for 5 monthes service . 9 0 0
Maorin Rule came to be cham-
bermaid, Whitsunday 1704,
her fie in the year £16, her
shoes £18 18.
To her £l, 10s. . . . 1 10 0
James Carrin
To him by Kat: for a pan, 4s.
0 4
0
To Isabell Ramsay on his ac-
cumpt .....
2 8
0
To him 5s. more £l, 9s. more
£1, 9s. more £l, 9s.
4 12
0
Decmr. 7 To him .....
26 0
0
Ms. Tulip came to waite on the
childrin Martimas 1704, her
wages is in the year £36 0 0,
besids the expenc of bringing
her.
18
15
0
4
8
0
0
14
6:
5
16
0
2
0
0
19
5
a
1704] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 12»
[Servants] [Scots]
For cariing her eloathes £2, 6s.
for some of the expene by the
road she layd out herself, £2,
more for her eloathes . . 8 10 O
To cary her back £9, to her wages
for 3 monthes
For bringing her doun
John Harla
Janr. 15 To him 14s. 6d.
August To him .....
Novr. 20 To Francy Newton on his account
To his wife ....
Novr. 24 To him by Kate: £l, 9s. more
£1, 4s. more by her £2, £l, 10s. 6 3 0
To Androw Lamb for this year .
For a hat and 2 cravats to him .
Dick Rule
Feb. To him 2 dollers
To him by Androw Lamb
To him at Wooller .
To Francy Newton on his accumpt
Oct. To himself in sumer .
Margrat Lamb
To her fies for a year and a half .
To her shoes ....
Margrat Ross, came to keep
howse at Mellerstean, Whit-
sunday 1704, her fie in the
year £20, shoes £22, 18.
Oct. To her by Androw Lamb . 2 10 2
To her for a years fie . . 20 8 0
Georg Trumble
For shoes to him £1, 16s. 6d.
hose to him 9s. hose again 9s. . 2 14 6
I
13 6
8
2 14
0
5 16
0
3 10
0
1 17
0
5 2
0
3 0
a
24 0
0
4 10
0
130
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1704
[Servants] [Scots]
Margrat Robison, came to £ s. d.
wate on the childrin, Whit-
sunday 1704, her fie in the
year £66 13 4
Novr. 1st To her 20 0 0
Dito 20 To her 13 6 8
Katharin Munro, came to serve
as chamber[maid], Whitsun-
day 1704, her fie in the year
£20, her shoes £2, 16, £22, 16.
To her, May 20 . . . 0 14 6
To her, £l, lis., more 14s. 6d.
10s 2 15 6
Nany Christy came to my service
as cook at Martimas 1704, her
fie in the year is £20 0 0 and
her shoes.
To her .....
For 16 ell stuf at lOsh. per ell
To her £1, 9s., payd James Miller
taylor £l, 16s.
To her £l, 9, more £l, 6 .
11 0
0
8 0
0
3 5
0
2 15
0
>. 185 03
6
Edenburgh, January 1704. Servants cloathes. Deb: to Cash.
To arle Margrat Robison . . 0 10 0
To arle Margrat Ross, chamber-
maid . . . . , 0 7 0
To J. Miller taylor for mending
servants cloathes . . . 2 10 0
For Dicks briches making 8s. linin
and pokets 13s. . . . 110
For mending James Carrins
cloathes . . . . 0 8 0
i
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 131
[Servants] [Scots]
July 2d For makeing 2 suts cloathes to
Dick and John
Aug. 4th To one Devison upon a decriet
gott against him .
For hose to Dick, 12s. 6d.
Dicks shoes £2 . . .
For threed, silk, pokets
To a taylor 15s. 10s. £3, lis. 6d. .
Novr. 22 For stokins to Geordy Dods 18s.
shoes to him, 2 pair one of them
running ons at £l, 15 the other
at ^^, os. ....
For shoes to James Carrin
For stokins to Geordy Dods 16s.
For mending servants cloathes
For making furniter to Dicks blew
COo-L • • • • •
For 4 ells cloath at 6s. 6d. per ell
For 6 ells stuf 7s. 0 per ell
For 8| ell black serg at 13s. per ell
For 4 ells serge 13s. per ell
For hardne, stentin, etc. .
For harden ....
£ s.
d.
4 12
0
3 0
0
2 12
6
4 0
0
4 16
6
0 18
0
3 18
0
2 8
0
0 16
0
3 0
0
5 5
0
15 12
0
1 19
0
5 10
0
2 12
0
1 15
0
0 12
0
S. 65 02 0
[Servants' Wages, 1707]
Mary Menzies ^
June 18 To her 2 years wages . . 200 0 0
Margrat Ritchy
June 10 To her a year and a halfs fie being
all her time . . . . 63 0 0
^ See p. xlvi.
132
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1707
[Servants]
Grisell [sic] came to be chamber-
maid June 17th, her fie in all
is £20 a year.
To her arls 3s.
She entred not home but went
to Ms. Monro.
[Scots]
£ s. d.
Mary Muir
To her for shoes £l, 5s.
Oct. 2 To her £2, 8s. for 2 pair shoes
To her .....
To her shoes 3 pair by Androw
Lamb ....
Meg Mill
For stuf to her goun
For pack threed bodies £l, 9s. ane
ell muslin 19s.
For stentin and goun making 18s.
June 5 To Meg Miln £l, 9s. for a suts
haed cloathes 19s.
For ane apron 18s. .
June 10 For a plad to her
July 2 To her, Tams wedin, 14s. 6d.
Janit Kirk came to be cook,
Martimas 1706, her fie in the
year is £30.
Feb. 26 To her
May 15 To her for half a year .
To James Carrin
March 12 To him when he went back from
Durhome 2 guinys and 15 sh.
o LCX • • • • • •
To James by Margrat £l, 9s.
To him a guiny at 22s. lOd. ster.
1
5
0
2
8
0
4
0
0
3
18
0
9
18
0
2
8
0
0
18
0
2
8
0
0
18
0
11
0
0
0
14
6
19 0
13 11 0
34 16 0
19 0
13 14 0
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 133
[Servants] [Scots]
To Isabell Ramsay on his account £ s. d.
for musline . . . . 4 7 0
To him a duson of servits for many
he destroy'd . . . . 6 15 0
To James for a key 6s. for glases
he got the mony of . . 1 16 0
July 2 To him, Tams wedin, 16s. 6d., for
8 ell towils £2, 5 . . . 3 16
To him, July 1708, £12, 18s. to
him by Francy Newton £6 . 18 18 0
Margrat Broun, came to be kook
at Whitsunday 1707, her fie is
£20 in the year and her shoes
£1, 6s. in all £22, 12.
To her for half a year . . 11 9 0
To Isabell Brounlies for washing
4s. pd. wringing 2 . . 19 0
John Frazer, came to serve at
Martimas 1706, his fie in the
year is £36 0 0.
Ap. To him £3, To him £33, for a year 36 0 0
John Harla
To him his fie for Whitsunday
1707
Sepmr. For a stone wooll payd John
Wights widow for him .
To him for shoes got from
Androw Lamb
To Alshy Blith on his account .
Oct. 4 To him £3 to the marchand on his
account £l 18
AlisonBrounliesentred to service
again at Whitsunday 1707.
24 0
0
5 12
0
1 16
0
0 18
0
4 18
0
134
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1707
[Servants] [Scots]
To her for ten day dightin £l 10 £ s. d.
brewing 13s. . . . 2 3 0
Oct. 4 To her in full of all . . . 8 0 0
Geogre Dods
Aug. To Will. Dickson for his childs
boord .....
To Tarn Youll by Androw Lamb
To James Ormston for threshing
To James Carrine, January 1709
18
0
0
1
3
2
12
0
0
12
0
0
S. 543 6 2
Febr. 12
June 10
1707. Servants clothes
For the rid clok dying
2
0
0
For shoes to G. Lamb
1
10
0
For stokins to G. Lamb
1
2
0
To an ell musline to Marie Muir .
0
19
0
For serg to line Jameses cloathes
at 10s. per ell
3
15
0
For shoes to Tarn Youll
1
16
0
For shoes to Geordi Dods .
1
19
0
For shoes to Geordie Lamb
1
10
0
For makenig Geordie Lambs black
cloathes ....
2
12
0
For skins for pokets 7s. at 5s. 6d.
per pice ....
1
18
6
For threed lis. butons lis. 4s.
1
6
0
For shoes to Geordy Dods
1
14
0
For shoes to Georg Lamb .
1
13
0
For shoes to Georg Dods 2 hose
£1, 3s. 2 .
3
3
2
For shoes to Nicoll Marchell
0
10
0
For stokins to Lam £l, 6s.
1
0
0
For blew hair and threed
5
6
0
I7091
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
135
[Servants'
Scots
)r wastcoat and drawers and
£ s. d.
runing briches to Dods .
6 10 0
)r butons threed and for Jameses
C03;L • • « • •
2 6 0
)r mending the servants cloathes
7 7 0
)r mending boots 7s.
0 7 0
S.
50 3 8
Mellerstaine, January 1709. Servants wages. Deb: to Cash.
May Minzies
To her 100 0 0
S. To her over and above her fie for
her care of the bairens when
they had the fever . . 333 6 8
Betty Navell. At candlesmas last
I ingag'd her for £36.
June 29 To her .....
To her at Edinburgh
Margrat Mill
May 7
To her £l,
4s. .
June 29 To her .
•
Bessi Clark
To her £l,
4s. .
To her ,
• •
To her .
• •
To her £3
To her in full of her wages
18
0
0
12
0
0
1
4
0
9
0
0
1
4
0
2
14
0
6
0
0
3
0
0
11
0
0
Nans Lindsay came at Martimas
1708, her fie in the year £14
and her shoes £16 8 0.
130 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1709
Servants]
[Scots
£ s. d.
To her .....
14 0
To her . . . .
14 0
To her .....
2 0 0
To her in full of her fie pay'd by
Adam Hutchison .
12 0 0
Grisell Wate came to be under
cook Whitsunday 1709, her fie
in the year £14 and shoes
£16 8 0.
George Mathy came to serve at
Lambes 1709, his fie in the
year is £36
To him by Francis Newton . 1 10 0
John Frazer
To him at Edinburgh . . 12 0 0
To him from his master at
London by his account . 28 6 0
To him for briches he bought at
London . . . . 4 4 0
He is fully pay'd
Tam Youll, he was made coach-
man at Whitsunday 1709.
To him at John Shiels's . . 0 12 0
To him for George Dods loss of
work when drunk and lam'd his
leg 7 4 0
George Lamb
For shirts to him . . . 3 12 0
George Dods
March 25 For a velvit cap he spoilt . 2 8 0
J709]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
137
[Servants]
For 1 yeard and a half musline .
For 6 cravats from James Lied-
house .....
To him at several! times that he
never gave account of .
John Clark came to thresh in the
barn at Martimas 1708, his
fie in the year £20.
To him pay'd by Will Halliwall .
To him over and above his wage
To Tam Youll for 10 days thresh-
ing at 4s. per day .
Androw Lamb, toun officer
To him for a year
To him by his officers land
Scots]
£
s.
d.
3
3
0
3
14
0
2
5
0
20 0 0
4 2 0
2 0 0
3 0 0
36 0 0
Oct. 22
John Hope came to be garner
Martimas last 1708, his wage
in the year with a house to his
wife is £48, and if he have
not the house it is £60.
To him a bed at £8
To him ....
To him £3, more £5, Is. 4d.
To him ....
To him ....
In whole for this years fie
being more then bargone.
8 0 0
12 16 0
8 14
15 0 0
8 2 8
52 00 0
!Mellerstains, January 1709. Servants cloathes. Deb: to
Cash.
For 6 ells course white plain for
briches at 6s. ...
1 16 0
138
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[170^
^Servants^
Scots
•
£ s.
d.
For dying the said eloath at 3 sh.
0 18
0
For hand bands to slives
0 10
0
For mending Tarn Youlls- boots
0 14
0
March 11 For shoes to Tarn Youll
1 16
0
For shoes to Geordy Dods £l 10,
his sons 6s. .
1 16
0
For 5 ell hnin to Geordy Dods
drawers £3, strings 2s. .
3 2
0
For 3 pairs stokins at £l 10 per
pair .....
4 10
0
For boots to George Mathy
6 0
0
For helping eloathes and altering
Lambs eloathes pay'd A. B.
2 0
0
For shoes to Dods £l 10 .
1 10
0
For 20 ells linine for eloathes at
7s. 6d. .....
7 10
0
For shirts to George Lamb payd
his mother ....
3 0
0
For 1 stone 4 lb. wight
sorted wooll for a
gray wab at £7 per
stone of waild wooll
is . . . £8 15 0
For oyl to said web . 0 18 0
For working the said ..
wab 20 ells by John
Muckle . . 3 0 0
15 13
0
For dressing the gray
wab . . .300*
For half a stone waild wooll for
pladine to be hose at £7.
£3 10
3 10
0
For working 12 ells of the pladine
3d. per ell .
1 16
0
For shoes to Geordy Lamb
1 14
0
For 4 cravats to George Lamb at
14s. . .■ . . .
2 16
0
I7I0]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
139
[Servants^
Scots]
For threed to sow the servants
£ s.
d.
murnins ....
0 16
0
For pokets to them .
1 8
0
For buckerram threed button
molds and to their murnins
1 19
0
For a hat to Tam Youll
1 8
0
For a hat and stokins to Wight .
3 12
0
For other necessarys for their
cloathes ....
1 10
0
To a taylor 16s. pladine for hose
£1 10s. . . . .
2 2
0
To Will Dickson taylor for make-
ing their murnings
1 10
0
For threed ....
0 14
0
For pladin for hose
1 10
0
For dying yellow cloath
0 6
2
S.
77 6
2
Mellerstaines, January 1710. Servants wages. Deb: to cash.
Sterlin
May Minzies
March 6th To her 10s. more £l .
1 10
0
To her .....
3 10
0
To her .....
3 6
8
Betty Navell
To her lOsh
0 10
0
The chair glas brecking of the
drinkmony
To her
0 10
0
Margrate Brown, came to be
kook at Whitsunday 1709,
her wage in the year is 2 10 0.
To her
1 05
0
To her 2sh. more £2, lOsh.
2 12
0
£
s.
d.
0
4
0
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
5
6f
140 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Servants] [Sterling]
Margrate Milne
To her for shoes
March 9 To her for shoes
To her 2sh. ....
To her fathers house rent White
[sunday] 1710
Ap. 12 To her 2sh. more by Androw
Lamb £l . . . . 12 0
To her which compleats her wages
for 5 years time . . . 15 0
Grisell Wate
March 9 To her for shoes . . . 0 2 0
To her 2sh. more by Androw
Lamb £l . . . . 12 0
To her for shoes 2sh. . . 0 2 0
Jean Ridpath, came to take
care of the fouls and swine, her
wage in the year with her shoes
at 2sh. sterling is (she came at
Martimas 1709 year) 14 0
. To her far shoes . . . 0 2 0
To her 3d. more £5 Scots which is
her wage for 5 month . . 0 8 7
Alisone Brownlies, entred to
serve in the kitchen, March 8,
1710, her wage in the year
is 13 4
her shoes 0 4 0
To her 10s. by An'd»-. more 17s. 4d 17 4
Jean Glen, came to wash and
spin at Whitsunday 1710, her
wage is with shoes in the year
1 10 8.
I7I0] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 141
[Servants] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
To her by Andrew, 4s. . . 0 4 0
To her which compleats a years
fie 16 8
I
George Mathy
To him by his master at London
£1, Os. 6d., more £l . . 2 0 6
To Alshy Blyth for him Is. 2d.
more 14s. 6d. more 17s. in full
of all 1 12 8
Thomas Cockburn came to be
Mester Houshold, at White-
smiday 1710, his wages is in
the year 4 0 0.
To him his wages for half a year . 2 0 0
j Novr. 12 To his wages for half a year longer
at £5 a year . . . . 2 10 0
John Hope
To his house rent, this besids his
£4 of fie
Ap. 3 To him 5sh. ....
To him for Pringles shoes
To him by corn from Widow
Wight . . . . 2 16 8
To him a stone wooll at 6s. 8,
more Ssh. . . . . 0 14 8
To him which clears his wages
from Martimas 1709 till Marti-
mas 1710, etc. . . . 0 0 10
Tam YouU
To him by his brothers oats . 2 13 4
To hime by Androw Lamb . 0 11 8
To him by Meg Hendersons bear 0 16 8
0
11
1-2-
0
5
0
0
2
10
142 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Servants] [Sterling]
Rob: Wight came to be bred £ s. d.
buttler at Martimas 1709.
For learning him to shave at
Edinburgh . . . . 116
George Dods
To him in Edinburgh . . 0 6 0
To him payd Will: Hutchison . 3 7 0
John Clark
To him of oats at £8 Scots 3 fous
3 pecks ....
To him a boll bear from Widow
Wight . . .
To him by the tenants in the
Mains corn and mony
To Tarn Youll of lott as it came to
15sh. bear, 13sh. 4d. oats, 15sh.
Tjcd'S • • • • •
To a porter at Grisies mariage .
To a cook and two men
To Robert Manderston £l, IDs.,
Roberton Master Houshold
£1, Is. 6d
Androw Lamb
To his expences in Jan^ and Feb'*. 0 2 6
July 6 To his expences Is. 4d. more 8d.
and 8d 0 2 8
To him his wages this year . 3 0 0
To a cook at Edinburgh caled
Margrat Wabster . . . 0 3 6
S. 54 4 7i%
0 10
0
0 16
8
0 19
0
1 14
0
0 5
1 11
0
6
2 11
6
I7I0] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 143
Mellerstaines, January 1710. Servants cloathes. Deb: to
Cash.
[Servants]
For cloathes, etc. for Rob: Wight
ridin coat ....
For makeing Robert Wights rid-
ing coat . . . .
For a frock to Wight
Ap. 8 For 4 pair shoes to George Dods
For Rob: Wights riding coat
For threed Ish. 8d.
For shoes to Rob: Wight .
For shoes to Tarn Youll
To James Watson for makeins
mens cloathes
For 12 ounces threed
For 21 ell plain for blew cloath at
71
For a chopin of oyl for livera
wooll .....
For 2 1 ston wooll for levera
cloath and linine ; this wooll
wa,s all sorted and clean wail'd
For butter 5s. [buttons ?] .
For 42 ells six quarters cloath
working at 3d. per ell, J: M:
For 21 ell lining ell broad at ld.|
working ....
For shoes to Robie Wight
For shoes to Tam Youll .
For shoes to Tam Youll, Geordy
Dods, and Rob: Wight .
For 2 hats to Tam Youll and
Geordy Dods
For dresing a hat to George
Mathy ....
For galoun to the hats Ssh. 9d. .
Sterling]
£
s.
d.
1
9
0
0
2
0
0
12
0
0
10
0
1
10
0
0
1
8
0
2
0
0
2
6
0
3
0
0
1
11
0
13
n
0
0
10
1
5
0
0
5
0
0
10
6
0
2
7i
0
2
0
0
2
6
0
9
0
0
8
0
0
1
0
0
8
9
144 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Servants]
For stokins to Rob. Wight, Tarn
Youll, Geo: Dods .
For stokins to Rob: Wight
For a hat to Rob. 2s. 6d. Dods
Is. Id. ....
For shoes to Rob. 2s. 8d. shoes to
Geordy Dods shoes 3sh.
Decmr. For boots to Tarn Youll cochman
For shoes to James Kilpatrick .
For a hatt and galune to Wight .
For galuns and tracing to the rest
of the servants to finish them
Aug. 16 For Robie Wight cloathes and
furnishone ....
For makeing and furnishing
Wights cloathes
For stokins shoes and buckles to
Wight ....
For linins to Wight, Youll and
Dods ....
For stokins to Dods and Youll
For 4 ells bustin for Dods's runing
wastcoat 3s. 4d. strings and
threed 9 . . .
For furniture for cloathes from
Cha: Ormston
Sterling]
L £ s. d.
0 7 6
0 16
»
0
3 7
>
0
0
0
0
5 8
10 0
2 4
9 0
0
[
2 0
L
2
0 0
0
6 6
0
6 0
1
1
0
1
4 6
5 6
i
0
1
4 1
0
10 6
S. 16
01 1
Account of Servants wages 1713.
May Minzies
To her . . .£100
Margrat Finla
Edn. To her 6s. 8d. more
from my doughter 5s. 0 11 8
1 713] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 145
[Servants] [Sterling]
Edn. To her 5s., 2s. 6d., 9s. £ s. d.
lOd. . . . 0 16 10
To her in full of her
wages . . 2 9 10 3 18 4
Ann Bell came to waah
and spine at Marts
1712 her wage in the
year with 2s. each
half year for shoes
is 1 14 0
To her 2s. more 2s.
0
4
0
To her a chist .
0
8
7
To her in full of her
wages
1
19
9
2 12 4
Alison Brunfield came
to be chamber Maid
Whit. 1713 her wage
with shoes in the
year is 1 14 0
To her wages for half a
year . . . 0 17 0 0 17 0
Peggy Johnston came
at Whitesunday 1713
her wage in the year
is 1 16 0
To her wages for half a
year . . . 1 16 0 1 16 0
Dorathy Gilroy came to
be Kitchen Maid at
White 1713 her wage
in the year is 50s. fie
and drinkmony
To Dolly wages for
half a year . . 0 13 0 0 13 0
K
146
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1713
[Servants]
To Dolly Cook Maid a
quarters wages and
cariage . . 0 18
0
Thomas YouU Coachman ^
To his wife when they
were sick . .050
To his Lambes Rent
1712 . . . 0 15
febr. 2d To him at Edn Decmr.
last . . .040
To his Candls Rent
1713 . . . 0 15
July 28 To him 3s. more 5s. to
Docter Gibson l£
Is. 6d. . . .19 6
To his Lambis Rent
15s. 2^%d. 1713
shoes 3s., 2s. 6d., 2s.
6d. . . .33
2 6
^T2
2t^
23%
Will Brounlees came
to be footman at
Marts 1712 his years
wages for stokins
shoes and alltogether
is 2 10 0
To him for shoes 3s.
stokins 2s. 3d. .053
To him in full and for
other work for \
year . . . 1 13 4
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 18 0
4 11 7
1 18 7
John Hume
March To him 6 bolls oats
11 Lithgow measure at
^ The items here entered against Thomas Youll are included in the fuller
statement on p. 148.
I7I3]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
147
Servants]
Sterling]
4£ 2 bolls Bear alto-
£ s. d.
gether comes to 32£
4d. . . . 2 13
8
To him of his wages 0 16
8
To him a ston 4 lb.
wooll . . .09
7
7 16 10
July 20 To him 13s. 9d., 8s. to
him 2£ . . 3 11
9
To his House rent . 0 15
0
July 15
John Clark entred at Marts
1712 His wages in
the year is 2 0 0
To him payd over and
above his account of
days work . .10 0
To him for 4 bolls oats
and two ston Meall 1 15 0
To him 2s. . .020
2 17 0
Androw Lamb
To the officers land .
To Matha Blacks land
Tame YouU came to
be barnman Whit
1713 his wage is in
the year 50s., and
hose and shose each
half year.
To him 10s. more.
0
0
0
0
3 0 0
Thomas Youll came to be footman White
1713 his wage is 2£
and for stokins and
shos 10s. in the
year in all 2 10 0
To him stokins 2s.
148
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1713
Servants]
shoes 3s. more 3s.
Sterling'
£ s. d.
more 3s.
0
11
0
To him Is. 2d.
0
1
2
0 12
2
To Barbry Hardy for
hay working 16
days
To a washer 6d. more
0
5
0
0 5
0
18d. .
0
2
0
0 2
0
Tarn Youll Barnman
has gote of late
Crop
1712 4 bolls oats at
1
12
8
4£ 12s. Scots 4 fows
more a boll 4 fous
bear at 7£ Scots .
1
1
0
s.
2 13
8
23 16
10
Thomas Youlls Account ^
For wages from A^Tiite
1706 to White 1709
1707 To him by Androw
Lamb
1708 To him by Androw
Lamb
To him by corn and
SuFd' • • •
1709 To him by John Shiels
To him by lose of
Dods services and his
own drinking .
To him
For wages at 2£ from
Whit 1709 till Whit
1712
4 10 0
6 0 0
0 2 0
1 13 4
0 9 6
0 10
0 10 0
0 2 0
* This statement of accounting with Thomas Youll is written on a separate
piece of paper pinned into the Account Book.
1713] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 149
irio
1711
1713
[Servants]
[Sterling"
To him by Andrew
£ s.
d.
Lamb
0 11
8
To him by Androw
Lamb Henderson
0 16
8
To him by his brothers
corns at several! time
and allow pat: in his
rent
6 10
0
To him
1 0
0
To the Lambes Rent
1711 . .
0 15
0 (j
To him for drinking at
Makerston, etc.
0 10
0
To George Dods for
him
0 13
8
To the Docter l£ Is. 6
•.
his wife 5 drogs 10 .
1 16
6
For wages at 2£ 10s.
from Whit. 1712 till
Marts. 1714 . .65
0
To him 3s., 5s., 3s., 2s.
6d., 2s. 6d.
6 16
0
To him at Edn 4s. 3s.
4d. R D 2s. 6d.
0 9
10
To him 3s. 6d. more 3s.
0 6
6
To the Ferrier of horse
hire ...
2 0
0
By his rent for 3 year at
Lambs 1714 .
4 11
3
16 15
0 23 15
1t%
ballance over pay'd . 7 15
1 <>
Account of Expence of Servants Cloathes 1713.
To Alison Brunfield of Arls . 0 0 6
To Dolly kilray of Arls and bring-
ing her home. . ... . 0 2 0
150 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1713
[Servants] [Sterling]
For going Whissen bank May £ s. d.
Minzies and Androw Lambs
expence with one horse . 0 2 9
bringing home bella 2s. 2d.
James young arls 6d. . . 0 2 8
For bustine to make oat a wast-
eoat at lid. . . . 0 2 2|
For brew hair 6d. pr ounce and
threed 6: 0 . . . . 0 2 0
For 15 ell Gray working six
quarter broad at 3d. . . 0 3 9
For 8 ells Bustine for runing
cloathes . . . . 0 9 0
For arls to wemen Is. . .010
For working 15 yeards gray at 3d.
pr yd 0 3 9
To spotswood taylor for mending
cloathes . . . . 0 2 0
£1 11 7^
Mellerstaine, Janry 1714. Account of Servants wages.
May Minzies
Ap. 24 To her . . .10 0
June To her . . .10 0
For dying her goun .070
To her . . .10 0 3 7 0
Fanny Bell Entred at
White 1714 to be
House keeper her
wage in the year is
£ s. d.
5 0 0
To her . . .200 200
I7I4]
I
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 151
[Servants"
"Sterling"
Jeany Forsieth Entred
£ s. d.
at Marts 1713 to be
chamber Maid her
wage in the year is
£ s. d.
2 0 0
To her half a years
wages . .10
0 10 0
Katharin Kenady En-
tred at White 1714
to be chamber Maid
her wages in the year
is 2 0 0
To her for half a year 10 0 10 0
Katharine Heart En-
tred to be Landry
Maid and washer at
White: 1714 her
wage in the year is
34s. and 4d. and
her two pairs shoes
at 2s. a pair . . 1 18 4
Isabella Rickelton en-
tred to wash and
Milk cow at Marti-
mas 1713 her wage
in the year is with her
shoes at 2s. 1 10 8
To her 2s. lj%.
To her in full for a year 1 10 8 ] 10 8
Bella Robison entred
to be under Cook at
Marts 1713 her wage
in the year is
2 0 0
152
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1714
Janr,
Servants'
[Steriing"
To her 5s. more 2s.
£ s. d.
6d. more 5s. one s
to her . . .0
13
6
For stuff to her goun 1
0
0
To her linin to it 2s.
6d. makemg Is. 8d. 0
4
2
For two Aprons James
Liedhouse . . 0
3
0
For changeing a plate 0
1
6
2 2 2
Peggie Sharp entred
to be under cook at
July 8 her wage in
the year is 1 10 0
To her for half a year 0 15 0 0 15 0
To the Nurs 3s. 4d.
more 3s. 4d. . .068
To her 6 bolls oats at
5£ 16s. 8d. . .360 3 12 8
Janr,
Alexander Hume En-
tred at White 1713
to be Butler his
wages in the year is
2 0 0
To him .
1
0
0
To him for boots
0
10
0
To him for cheno and
other things he
brock .
0
10
0
2 0 0
Octr.
James Grieve Entred
at Marts 1713 to be
Butler his wage in
year is 2£ but if he
pleases me it is to be
3£ 3 0 0
To him . . .1
0 0
10 0
I
1714] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 153
k [Servants] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
Thomas Youll Coachman
»To the fferriers ac-
count l£ 10 a horse
hire to the coch when
the Mare was spoilt
0 10 0 . .200
To him for shoes 3s.
4d. from R D 2s.
6d. . . . 0 5 10
Candles rent 1714
Lamb rent 1714
1£ 10s. 5d. . . 1 10 5 3 16 3
May 15 he is over payd at
White 1714 5£ 19
Id.
June 3 To him 3s. 6d. more 3s.
John Hume Garner
To him 5s., 2s., more
10s. ston wooll 8s. 1 5 0
To him in full of his
wages at Marts 1714 2 6 8
For his bbolls oats and
2 bolls bear Lithgow
measure . . 2
13
4
For his House Rent 0
15
0
For his Cows meatt
and grase.
John Clark
To him shoes 3s. 2d.
Meal 2s. 5d. more
2s. Id., 15s. 4d. . 1
3
0
Androw Lamb his ex-
pences at fairs 2s.
more 3s. . .0
5
0
7 0 0
154
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1714
July 14
[Servants'
[Sterling]
To Andrew Lamb for
£ s. d.
his land . .300
To Dick . . .068
4 14 8
Thom Youll footman
To Tom 3s. 6d. .036
To him 5s. more 2s.
more 6d more 3s.
6d. . . . 0 11 6
To him 3s. . .036
To him which pays him
for a year and a half 2 6 0
3 4 &
To Tamas Youll the
Banmian a years
wages payd him at
Whitsunday 1714
Thomas Bell Entred
at White 1714 to be
Banmian his wage
in the year is three
pound and two pair
shoes and 2 pr stok-
ins 10 . 3 10 0
To him 5s. to him his
whole fees for 6
monethes
To 5d. men for going
errands thresing etc.
for a year
To Meg Henderson
two Aprons 3s. shoe
2s. 2d. .
To her 2s. and to
Barbry Hardy for
her Is. more in full
14 2
0 14 2
2 17 4
1 15 a
1 18 4
28 6 1
£
s.
d.
0
10
0
0
1
0
0
2
0
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 155
[Servants]
Account of Servants Cloathes and other expences 1714.
[Sterling]
For a pair boots to Sandy Hume
To Fanny Bells Arls Is.
Ap. 14 To Liedhouse for threed last year
Ap. 26 To Alexander Blyth for makeing
and mending cloathes to this
day haveing cleard accounts
with him . . . . 0 8 6
For cariing Jean Forsyth and her
trunk from Newcastle . . 0 12 6
For bring Fanny Bell out of toun
Is. bringing Katharin heart 2s. 0 3 0
For bringing Katharin Kenady
from Berwick Is. . . 0 10
For bringing Pegie Sharp from
Berwick . . . . 0 10
1 19 0
London, January 1715. Servants wages.
May Minzies
To her 116
April] To her which compleats all her
wages till Lambes last 1714 . 19 11 6
Aug. 26 To her l£ lOsh. Decmr. 2 to her
2£ 3s. . . . . 3 13 0
Katharin Hearts wages I highted
when I came to London from
Candles 1715 to .300
March 8 To her . . . . 1 12 0
Aug. 26 To her 116
Jean Housnem came to be Cook
Sterling]
£ s. d.
1
0
0
7
2
8
4
6
0
156 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Servants]
the 16 day of Dcemr 1714 her
wage in the year is £8.
To her for 2 Monethes caried away
by constables
To Marie Swan cook for a week .
To Hana Stivens cook
Sara Lies came to be Chamber
Maid the 21 Decmr. 1714 her
wage in the year is £4 0 0
1715
Janr. 11. To her for 3 weeks wages . 0 5 0
Hellen Williams came to be
Housemaid the 12 her wage in
the year is . .£400
For a mug 2 more for 6 weeks
6s. 2d.
Aug. 26 For constables and cariing befor a
justice of peace 8s. 2d. . . 0 16 4
' Ann Frazer came to be chamber
maid the 22d febr. her wage in
the year was .300
Aug. 26 To her for a fourtnights wages 3
weeks more . . . . 0 7 6
Sara Thrift came to be Housemaid
the 10 of March her wage in the
year is . . £4 0 0
To her for a week . . . 0 2 0
Ap. 8 To Doraty house made for a week 0 17
Lattes Hall entered to be Cook
the 26 of March her wage in the
year is . 8£ 0 0
To her for a moneth wages
13s. 4d 0 13 8
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 157
[Servants] [Sterling]
To Winifrid Rollands for a £ s. d.
monethes wages. . . . 0 16 8
Aug. 26 Katharin Loid came home for one
night only
Sep. 18 Amee cook a day . . . 0 2 6
John Baillie came to
be Jerriswoods ser-
vant at White 1714
his wages in the
year is £5 0 0
11715
[Janur. 11 To him half a years
wages ... 2 10 0
May 1 To him in full of his
wages . . 2 10 0
Thomas Hewie came
in John Baillies
place his wage
4£ 0 0
To him for half a year
tho he was only
from 6 May till 28
Sepr ... 200
James Grives wages I
highted after I came
to London at
Candles 1715 to (in
the year) £4 0 0
Aug. 26 For a Mug Is. a fork
lOsh. .
I highted James
wages at Lambes
1715 to £5 0 0
Tam youls is to con-
tinue at in the year
£3.
158 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Servants] [Sterling]
To his wifes Candles £ s. d.
rent 1715 . . 0 15 2A
To her Lambes rent
1715 . . . 0 15 2^4^^
Aug. 26 For plewing his land
this year . . 0 18 10
2 9 1
Betty cook
for a moneth . 0 10 6
Aug. 17 To her for days wages 0 8 0 0 18 6
Jean Forsith entred to
be house Maid at
Whitsunday 1715
her wage in the
year is £3 0 0
Aug. 26 To her a pair shoes .046
To her . . .116
To her fraught come-
ing up beside her wages 0 10 0
To her in full of 11
moneths wages at
4£ a year . .200 3 16 0
Nelly Ormand came
to be Cook on the
17 August her wage
in ye year £5 0 0
To her for 6 moneths 2 10 0 2 10 0
Robert Anderson came
to be Jerriswoods
footman Sepr. 28
his wage in the year
with Liverras is £5
he furnishes shoes and
stokins — stayd a
week.
1715]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
159
[Servants]
George Midcalf came
to be footman Octo-
ber 1715 his
wages in the year
without stokens and
shoes is 5 0 0
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
S. £48 16 2
To Hellen Williams arls
For a Big coat to Tam Youll lined
and brass buttons
For a Big lin'd Coachmans Coat .
For a hatt and laceing two with
old lace I had by me
Ap. 20 For a blew coat to Tames Youll
May 28 For 4 pair Stokins to the Liverras
For shoes to Tam youll
For dresing and cuting two hats
For a sute Liveras to James Grive
at 4£ lOsh. ....
For a big Blew coat to James
Grive .....
For a sute Liverras to Thomas
Hardy and a big coat
For a coate to the coachmas
Nicolles ....
For a wastcoat and briches to
make Tam youll a full sute
To Robert Anderson arls to be
Jerriswoods footman
Aug. 26 For gold lace to two hats
Sep. 18 For shoes to Tam youll
For a hat to George Midcalf 8s.
lace to it 3s. ...
0
0
6
2
5
0
2
10
0
0
6
0
2
5
0
0
14
0
0
4
0
0
2
6
4
10
0
2
10
0
7
0
0
1
10
0
2
5
0
0
1
0
0
17
2
0
4
6
0
11
0
160 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Servants] [Sterling]
For a pair plushes and with £ s. d.
shambo briches to George . 0 16 0
For a pair of shoes to Tarn youll . 0 4 6
S. £28 16 2
London, January 1st, 1717. Account of Servants
wages.
May Minzies
To Mr. Hambly for a piece of
chints . . . . .600
To her at Lambes 1717 in full of
all wages . . . . 4 15 6
Katharine Heart
I highted her wages at Whit 1717
to ... 5 0 0
To her full and compleat payment
at White 1717 . . . 5 16 2
Katharin Lasell came to be cham-
ber Maid to my doughters the
day of her wages
in the year is .500 0 12 6
She stayd 6 weeks . . . 0 12 6
Mary Pen came to be chamber-
maid her wage in the year is
6 0 0
June 2d To her l£ Is. 6d. returned 6s. 6d.
pay her for six weeks . . 0 15 0
Katharin Kenady came to be
House Maid the 23 day of Janr.
her wage in the year is
4 0 0
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 161
[Servants] [Sterling]
I highted her wages at Lambes £ s. d.
1717 to . . 4 10 0
To her when she was in Scot-
land 2 12
To her compleat wages at Marts
1717 13 0
Jean Dickson came to be cook the
1st febr. her wage in the year is
8 0 0
To her a moneths wages for a
fourtnight . . . . 0 13 4
Pegie came to be cook
the 18 day of febr. her wage in
the year is . .600
She stayd only a night.
Betty was cook from 20 feb.
to
To her 10 sh., more 10s. more for
10 weeks 8 lOd. . . . 1 8 10
Ann Phillips entred to be cook
Wedensday the 24 Aprill her
wages in the year .700
To her in full for 2 monethes and
2 weeks at 8£ a year . . 1 13 6
Ann Griffeth came to be cook the
9 July her wages in the year is
7£ and 8 if she dos well
8 0 0
To her 7 Moneth and 3 weeks at
3s. 4d. a week . . . 5 3 4
James Grieve
To him full payment of all wages
at Martimas 1717 . . 14 19 7
L
£ s.
d.
12 0
0
9 12
0
2 5
0
162 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Servants] [Sterling]
John Hume Garner at Mellerstaine
To him three years wages at
Martimas 1717
To him 18 bolls oats and 6 bols
bear Lithgow measure at 8sh.
pr boll for sd 3 years
To his house rent 3 years at 15
To his cows grase and fother in
winter.
James Park came to be footmas
13 febr. his wages without shoes
and stokens is 5 0 0
Thomas Youll
To him the Candles and Lambs
1716 and 1717 rent . . 3 10 10
For Plewing his Land the sd 2
years . . . . . 1 17 8
George Divison entered footman
his wages in the year
is . . . 4 10 0
June To him 5s. in full of his wages for
8 moneth more . . . 3 0 0
To Androw Lamb 3 years rent
Lambs 1715 16 and 1717 his
being 2£ Matha blacks l£ 2s.
8^^—9£, 8 Ij^ . .98 I3.J
(j
Dorathy Hunter came at the end
of Aug: 1717 to be my Grisies
Maid her wages in the year is
5 0 0
octr. To her by Francy Newtons ac-
count . . . . 6 14 4j^J
I7I7]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
163
[Servants] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
To her by Mrs. Wisharts account 0 6 0
To Babie Robison for sowing at
half a crown a week . . 1 12 3
febr. 11 For a woman to wash Is. to scour
2 days 2s 0 3 0
For washing Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is.
2s. 6d. Is. Is. Is. Is. Is. . . 0 13 6
For scoiuring Is. Is. 6d. . . 0 2 6
S. £96 6 9lf
London, January 1st, 1717. Account of Servants cloathes.
For stokins to Tam 3s. . . 0 3 0
For mending Tam youls Cloathes 0 5 3
For 6 duson brass buttons at 18 . 0 9 0
For 9 dusone small at 9d. . 0 6 9
For a pair gloves for Park . 0 16
^larchs For 3 hats to the servants 15s.
lace to them 10s. 4d. . . 15 4
For cloath to servants at 8sh. 2
biff coats and sute cloathes . ^ ^ .
- 6 5 4
The serge linin at 20d. big butons
as above for one coat
To Pringle the Taylor for makeing
the sute at rates agreed on . 3 12 0
For a pair hose to Tam . . 0 3 1
For a pair shoes to Tam . . 0 4 0
For a hat and galoun to George
5s. 4s. . . . . . 0 9 0
For 4 pr scarlite stokens to the
servants 5s. on at 6s. 6d. . 116
For Tams shoes 18d. . . 0 16
For I cloath for Georges Briches
5s. 5d. . . . . .055
164
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1717
[Servants]
For shoes to James Park 4s. shoes
to George 4s.
For dresing a hat
For a pair boots to James Park
XXo* • • • • •
For 7 duson guilt bras buttons for
2 coats at 2s. pr du.
For nin duson waistcoat buttons
3X/ x sn« • ■ • •
For a goun to Tarns doughter
For stokens to Tam youll .
For ane Apron to Nans Haliwall .
For a Blew Ridincoat to Will Mc
Aug. For cariing Dol Hunters cloaths,
\Z l/v^ ■ • • • • •
For boots to George which he lost
[Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
8
0
0
1
0
0
11
0
0
14
0
0
9
0
1
4
0
0
4
6
0
5
5
1
14
10
0
11
0
0
4
6
S. £23 9 11
Deburst for Houshold furnitur 1693.
table,
1693
Aprl 22d To William Scott for a
stands and glas
May 20. For a sut Aras hangins of 14 ells
in 3 pices ....
For puther from Mrs. Hervie
Ditto For sevarall othar things to the
howss that stands in ane other
book .....
For furniture betwixt Oct' 12
1693 and May 12, 1694 .
For bed bolster and cods .
For drinking glases .
1694 To Penman, goldsmith, for work
as per account and recept
[Scots]
60 0 0
96
39
0
4
0
0
88 18 0
. 304
0
0
22
2
0
11
6
0
40
0
0
1693]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
165
[Furnishings]
[Scots]
£
s.
d.
For furnitur to my green bed, etc.
169
19
0
For dornick ....
24
12
0
Jun. 20
For a washing ruber .
0
9
0
Ditto
For bottles ....
57
12
0
Aug.
For dornick at Inerkithin 12lb. 3d.
0 X/L ••■•••
124
12
0
For liting my coper culrd stuf , etc.
28
1
0
Ditto 26
For 2 ston lint
10
0
0
For linin for shits
9
8
0
Oct.
For the litle long folding table
4
4
0
For the rond table .
3
10
0
For 6 Holland codwars
6
0
0
For a bast to a bed .
17
0
0
For 4 spinell yerin .
4
4
0
Novr.
For a lint whille 3lb. 10 earthin
pots 6s. ....
3
16
0
For 5 duble preses for books at
13lb. p. pice, cohering 7lb.
72
0
0
For bakets seals and 3lb. helping
the screwtor 18s, .
13
18
0
For a wanscot chist of drawers .
16
0
0
For lint spining for shits 6 slips in
the pound 14s. p. lb.
For cariing the Lady Laws chist .
1
10
0
1695
For stript crap for window
March 12
courtins at 8s. 6d. per ell
4
8
0
To 24 ells linin for shits
15
12
0
May 30
For a bason 4, for 6 puther
spoones lib. 4s. .
1
8
0
For 5 glases 2lb. 6s. a lid to a
stand 14s. ....
3
10
0
For a washing tub 12s. a ruber 8s.
a glas 14d. jacolit stick lOd. .
2
14
0
July
For polishing my drawers 18s.
0
18
0
For 6 lame plats for milk .
1
16
0
For a key to the closit 8, a
poranger 4s. .
0
12
0
166
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1695
[Furnishings] [Scots]
For a gross bottels from Georg £ s. d.
Lason at 2lb. pr duson . . 24 0 0
For 36 pint bottles . . . 19 16 0
For a pott 14s. a ston lint for shits
101b 10 14 0
For working crap for curtins . 6 10
S. 1310 14 0
Deburst for houshold furnitur 1696.
January For 2 ston of lint to the toun of [Scots]
Mellerstens . . . . 11 18 0
To a pairt of payment for linin
working . . . . 4 7 0
20 For a ladle 3s. a flamer 4s. caps 3s.
washen brush 6s. . . . 16 0 0
For a shovell 14, skull 6s. . . 10 0
For 6 drinking glases 3ft. 2
chamer pots Ifb. 7s. . . 3 7 0
For tikin to bed and bolster . 2 16 0
For buttons for codwars . . 19 0
For a water stoup w* yron girths 18 0
Aprill For a posit dish . . . 14 0
For drinking glases . . . 7 4 0
For setting a fixt bed in the
nursary . . . . 2 18 0
For 2 pair shits 4lfe. hnin 14s. . 4 14 0
For linin working 5 quarters brod
at 3s. 4d. per ell.
For ane yron draping pan . . 3 14 0
May 1st For a pair linin and woolan
blanckets . . . . 8 16 0
For scuring 3 piece Arass hangins 2 2 0
For 6 Dutch wand chiers . . 19 16 0
For 54 ells hair plush at 3 ft. 8 per
ell for hangins . . . 183 6 0
i6q7] of lady GRISELL BAILLIE 167
[Furnishings] [Scots]
To Pringle for litting the scarlit £ s. d.
crap, etc. . . . . 15 0 0
Jun. 18 For rubers hard and washing . 18 0
For the Japan table stands and
glas 120 0 0
For 6 chairs at 16sh. the pice . 49 12 0
For a fring to the plush hangins
2 lb. 7s. cover to Japan table . 5 7 0
For bliching 43 ells linin at 2s. 6d.
the ell 5 8 0
July 19 For tikin to a bed 9 ells . . 6 15 0
For a Dutch basket for my
cloathes . . . . 3 0 0
For a hather brush 3s. 6d. . . 0 3 6
For making 6 cuchines at lis. pice.
linnin to one of them . . 3 16 0
Decmr. For 6 water glases . . . 3 0 0
To Carr, goldsmith for 6 spons
6 forks, etc. per recept . . 100 0 0
To put the blads in the silver
knives . . . .
For a bast to the door
For 68 ells cours dornick working
bliching, etc.
2 2
0
0 12
0
ig
8 14
0
S. 600 16
6
Deburst for howshold furniture 1697.
Agust 1st To Carr goldsmith the remains of [Scots]
ane acount . . . . 012 00 00
For a lame bason
For bustin the big chair
For a clogbag lock
For a fish pan .
For puting a blad in a knif
000 14 00
000 14 00
000 04 00
000 07 00
000 12 00
168 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1697
Ditto
Septm.
[Furnishings]
Scots]
For sives and riddels at Meller-
£ s. d.
SLv^cxllS • • • • •
002 02 00
For a fathirbed bolster and 2 cods
042 00 00
For a bason 4s. 6d. 4 glases iti. 16
002 00 06
For the shoe yron 10s. a lock
mending and key to a trunk
001 00 00
For a cover to the green chair
4 ell at 2ti. per ell
004 00 00
For scuring 5 pice of Arrass
hangings ....
003 04 00
For 2 milk basons at 10s. and 14s.
3 caps at 18sh.
002 02 00
For a rimin dish 2s. milsy 2s.
bason 7sh. ....
000 11 00
For 6 knives with horn hefts
001 16 00
For a lame chamber pot 13 :
2 rid ons and a dry stool
001 04 00
For a harth buson 12 a busom for
hangins 11 .
001 03 00
For a gros of chapin and a gros
muchkin bottels
036 00 00
For a bed bolster and 2 cods
016 00 00
For werping and sowing my
holland ....
001 00 00
For working my holland 43 ells
12s. per ell and drinkmony
026 10 00
For 5 hesps mor yerin to the
holland at iti. 10 the spinill .
001 17 00
For a clogbag lock
000 05 00
To Thomas Carr goldsmith 6
ounces silver
019 04 00
For 6 ells scarlit crap to my bed
at 24 s.per ell . . .
007 04 00
To Robert Hadden for munting
it 6ti. 16, a big cushin 2ti.
008 16 00
To the timer of the bed 15ti.,
rops 2ti. ....
017 00 00
To the rods of the bed 4ti. 4ti.
008 00 00
-T703]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
169
[Furnishings]
Scots]
To stentin silk and threed and
£ s. d.
LdflvlLo • • * • •
007 00 00
To 3 cut Vinis glases
012 13 00
To 4| ells Damask table cloath,
30| ells Damask servits.
To table cloathes at per ell,
the servits at
For 25 ft. tow ....
010 08 00
For 4 pair of linin shits
041 12 00
For 4 pair shits at 5ti. 10 .
022 00 00
For a pair old shits .
004 04 00
For seals and 2 pound wight
004 06 00
For 3 carpit cushins 4ti. 10s., a
chamber box.
005 12 00
The timber of a bed with rods .
006 00 00
To John Hancha for tables and
timer work per acount and
recept .....
027 04 00
To Ms. Henry for pother as per
recept .....
018 06 00
377 14 0
For plode [? plade] to Mr. Johnston
167 12 0
Edenburgh, January 1703. Houshold Furnitur.
Deb: to Cash.
For 12 ells callico to help to lint
; [Scots]
the bed ....
24 0 0
For 19 bottles ....
1 18 0
For a large sawse pan
5 8 0
For a skellit pan
2 8 0
To Ms. Willy for 18 glases ale 12s
wine 6s. and 8s. .
7 0 0
For 4 jelly glases
14 0
For 8 jugs at 3sh. per pair
7 4 0
For 2 crewits ....
14 0
170
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1703
[Furnishings]
For a wine glas
Febr. 2 For 17| ells silk and cotten for
window curtins
For drawing the pand of the white
bed .....
For 5 bottles ....
For 2 little cups to drink out off .
Mar. 13 For a little yethn kettle .
For a little bras pan
For tining the pan .
For calico to line my bed
For ane earthin pot to pickle
salmond ....
To Thomas Carr goldsmith ane
ballance of ane old accumpt
for silver work in full of all I
am due him as per his recept
For a little wort shill
For a whisk
For a dry stool 10s.
For 33 bottles .
For a ridle to the tind
For tows to the wall last year
Aprill For wall tows .
For a jack £4 16s. for smithwork
in making the whils
For cuper work
For a chamerpot
For 4 bottles 8s.
For 11| ell tickin
For nails 9s. seting the kitchin
chimny £12
For 8 bottles 16s. nails 4s.
For 3 slips yeron 18s.
June 15 For 2 pair sheats for the childrins
beds, 12 pillabers ,
For 2 pair sheets to the servants
[Scots]
£ s. d.
0
6
0
32
3
6
0
18
0
0
10
0
0
3
0
8
0
0
1
18
0
0
8
0
20
0
0
0 4 0
36
0
0
0
6
0
0
3
0
0
10
0
3
6
0
0
14
6
0
16
8
0
13
6
10
0
0
0
9
0
0
12
0
0
8
0
10
2
0
n
1
11
0
1
0
0
0
18
0
IS
14
0
0
7
0
(V
1703]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
171
August
[Furnishings]
To James Imry smith for work
To Ernist for my bed making
For 3 bottles 6s., for a map 7s., a
whisk 2s. 6d.
For a shp yeron 6s., for a rill 6s. 6d.
For 3 cups 14s.
For a bottle 2s., 5 bottles 10s.
For 2 decanters
For 12 cheana custard dishes
For 2 hand sconces
For a coffie pot
For ordinar Dornick
For 57 ells linin for shits
For chamber pot
For 2 tb. Dutch threed for fringes
For wirsit to make fringes
For a basin 14s.
For 18 bottles .
For 21 ells plading working
For 50 ells linin bliching .
For a timber morter
For a skep for meall
For a pound and ane ounc Dutch
threed .....
For knitins 4s., small cords 7s. 8
For takets £l, a ladle and sowin
sive 5 ....
For a pair wooll cards £l 2s.
For yron for cruks and bearers .
For a tree stoup lis. a handy cog
For 10 ells harden
For ane ston wooll .
For linin for shits
For 3 ston lard wooll at £6 10
For oyl to wooll
For threed £l, 12 cravat to Steed-
man 12s. ....
[Scots]
£ s. d.
10 0
0 10 0
0 15
0 12
0 14
0 12
4 16
4 16
0 12
0 14
54 10
38 0
0 12
4 16
7 16
0 14
1 16
1 11
3 9
0 14
0 6
1
1
3
1
9
1
5
6
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
8
0
0
3 4 0
0 11 8
5 0
2 0
3 10
0
0
0
0
6 13
13 0
19 10 0
3 10 0
2 4 0
172 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1703
[Furnishings]
For forcing shirs 2 pair 3s. , threed
^o> • • • • •
For knitins 4s,, while bands 2s.,
knitins 4s. .
For 50 ell stuf for the little room
at 7s. 6d. ....
To Steedmans son a mounth at
Mellersteans in pairt
Meller To the couper a years accumpt
[steans] For 20 ells strakins at 6s. 6d.
Oct. 20 For 156 days spinin whereof 6 to
washen ....
For 18 days all at Is. 6d. per day
For 30 ells linin at 3s. the ell
working ....
For 20 ells linin to Frater .
For 30 ells pladin by heart at 2s.
per ell .
For 21 ells pladin wrought by
Rob: Milne at Is. 6d.
For 43 days work by Alshy Blith
and his son
For 29 ells harden for bed and
horse shites ....
For 2 seeks £4 for a pott 2s.
For dying yellow fringes .
For a map 8s., ridle 5s. 8d., tyle for
chimny, £1 2s. .
For takets 8s. 6d.
December For scarlit wirsit litting to a fring
of a bed ....
For green worset to the said bed .
For bangall for servants towills .
For cloath to the black riding
furnitur at 10s. str, . . 15 0 0
For a black coutch with canvis
botom . . . . . 9 0 0
For a black arme rush chair . 3 12 0
Scots]
£ s. d.
0 5
0
0 10
0
17 15
0
08 0
0
6 11
0
6 10
0
11 14
10
1 7
0
4 10
0
3 0
0
3 0
0
1 11
6
8 11
6
7 10
0
4 2
0
1 10
0
1 15
8
0 8
6
26 10
0
2 17
6
3 17
0
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 173
[Furnishings] [Scots]
For two low rush chairs
For a rush bottomd eassi chair .
For a big bufft eassi chair with
cushon ....
For a walnut tree footstooll and
buffing ....
For two rush foot stools .
To P. N. for making a cran and
cripit .....
For 2 crook trees bed rods etc. by
Jl Oi^* XN • • • • •
For 100 ells cord for curtins
For furnitur to make beds
For rods to a bed at 3s. per foot
For a larg fire shuffill
For a fine cutt timber of a bed .
For a ston of douns
For dying silk fring and cushons
For making 7 cushons
For 2 cutt cornises 3s., drinkmony
6s 2 2 0
For buckarm threed, takets, and
to a bed ....
For lame bouls and basons, etc.
For a pice muslin for window
curtins ....
For 11 bottles £1 2s.
To Stidmans son pays out a
month at Mellersteans .
To Imrie, smith
For linin to help to line the
barens bed ....
For brush to the horse 10 nails, etc.
For setting chimnys .
For table cloathes
To Clark wright in pairt of his
account ....
£
s.
d.
4
16
0
4
4
0
18
0
0
4
16
0
3
0
0
0
8
0
1
8
0
4
3
4
2
6
0
2
8
0
3
0
0
48
0
0
9
0
0
4
6
0
7
0
0
6
7
0
3
18
0
37
0
0
1
2
0
12
0
0
2
0
0
5
14
0
1
5
0
0
18
0
9
12
0
60
0
0-
174
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1703
"Furnishings'
Scots'
For tining two pots, another pot,
£ s. d.
3 covers ....
2 0 0
For busoms and brushes and
chamber pots
8 0 0
For a frying pan
2 2 0
For 9 ells hardin from Hellin
Garner ....
2 14 0
S.
807 0 8
Edenburg, January 1707. Houshold Furnitur.
Deb. to Cash.
For glazing the house at Edin- [Scots]
burgh . . . . 20 0 0
For the workemanship of a cooler
54 ounces and 13d., a duson
spoons 31 ounce 8d., 12 knife
helfts 10 ounce lOd., six salts
15 ounce 3d. as per Robert
Bruce goldsmithes account . 91 8 0
For 37 ounces 2d. silver of the
abovesaid work (the rest being
my own) at £3 4s. per ounce . 118 16 0
For severall things mended by
Mr. Bruce . . . . 8 16 0
For a bras hand candlestick to
the bairens room . . . 0 12 0
For 2 smothing yrons £l 8s.,
mending the rest 7s. . . 1 15 0
April Ist.To Sibit Smith in full of all
accounts . . . . 19 0 0
For a big bras pan . . . 4 16 0
For a virginall hammer 16s., a
musick book £6 . . . 6 16 0
For another big brass pan . 4 6 6
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 175
[Furnishings] [Scots]
For a pair little bras candle sticks £ s. d.
£2 8s., 3 pair snuffers £l 10,
extinguisher 5 . . . 4 3 0
For screw nails from Mr. Inis . 4 16 0
For half a gross bottles £9, cariing
them 9 2 0
For mending a pot Is. 6d., cocks
and pales 2s., oven mending
5s. 6d 0 9 0
For nails 2s. 6d., smith work
14s. 6d., 2s. 6d., Is., Is., 6s.,
Is., 2s. . . . . 1 11 0
For mending the bucat and
girthes 9s., tubs 7s. 6d., 3s. 6d. 10 0
For kitchen towils £l 2s., more
cours cloath £3 6s. . . 4 8 0
For threed Is. 2s. Is. 6d., a hair
busom 16 . . . . 10 6
For a washing ruber lis., a ruber
8s., a ruber 12s. . . . 1 11 0
For keys to back gate lis., 2 little
tubs lis. . . . . 110
For a whipe 12s., a Spanish busom
4s., hard brush 8s. 6d. . . 14 6
For 4 sillibub glases £2 8s., a glas
10s 2 18 0
For 11 ells Holland for window
curtins . . . . 21 0 0
For comb and brush to the mares
£l 16s. . . . . 1 16 0
For glazing windows £l 16s., a
map and whisk 12s. 6d. . 2 8 6
For 7 earthen juggs £l 2s. 4d., a
tin tanker 5s. 6d. . . 1 7 10
For a sand glas 6s., a milk sive and
pott 6s. . . . . 0 12 0
For a ston douns to the easie chair
£8 10s., a rugh head £l 2s. . 9 12 0
176 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1707
[Furnishings]
For 4 ells harden £l 2s., a coll
ridle 4s. ... .
For a lock to Grisies door 16s., a
key to the drawers 6
For helping trunk locks 8s., a cours
chamer pot ....
For bast 6 ells of 8 bread £2 2s.,
3 ells fine 8s. 6d. per ell .
For a washin ruber for Meller-
SXCd'IlS • • • • •
For strings to window courtins
X ff Oa • • • • •
For 3 hand candlesticks to
Mellersteans
For 10 duson of bottls
Meller For 3 lame basons and
[steans] chamerpots 4 to Mellerstean
June 10 basons 7s. p. pots 8sh. p.
Mellerstean For a saus pan
June 10 For spoons bought by Mary Muir
Oo* • • • • •
For 9 ells strakins at 6s. per ell .
13 For a ladle 2s., kitchin knif 3s. 6d.
For 3 ells bast £l Is., for harden
at 4s. per ell ...
For 12 yron scewers 9s., a Spanish
busom 4s. 6d.
July 8 To the couper in Earlston in full
of all accounts
For 5 ells strokins for kitchin
aprons, etc. ....
For stamping plush 2s. per ell 8s.
For scouring 16 pair blankets
For puting up chmneys and doing
other things in the house . 2 0 0
For a map 3s. 6d., a filler for
Meller[stean] 3s. 6d. . . 0 7 0
For a glass chirn . . . 10 0
[Scots'
£ s. d.
16 0
1 2
0
0 9
6
3 7
6
0 11
0
0 17
0
2 2
12 0
0
0
2 13
2 8
0
0
0 6
2 14
0 5
0
0
6
2 0
0
0 13
6
4 0
0
1 5
0 8
1 8
0
0
0
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 177
[Furnishings] [Scots]
Aug. 15 For houshold furniture from £ s. d.
Moubra in full of all accoumpts
acording to his account and
discharge .... 107 10 0
To Docter Dundas for 2 Ormiston
queches . . . . 3 0 0
For helping loks and keys at
Edinburgh 8s. ' . . . 0 8 0
For 6 duson table napkins and 15
table cloathes bought at Inner-
kithin by Ms. Linsday . . 136 0 0
For sowing table napkens 6
napkens 3 dusone . . 1 13 0
For a damask table cloath from
Ms. Orr . . . . 6 0 0
For makeing a brander, etc., in the
kitchen . . . . 14 4
Sep. 29 For another glas chirn the first
being broke . . . . 10 0
For a lock to the utter door of
later meet room . . . 0 16 0
For a clogbag lock 6s., 2 timber
plates 14s. . . . . 10 0
For aim to lite coverins 8s., work-
ing hnt £1 more £2 7s. . . 3 15 0
For 2 big timber milk basons, a
big plate . . . . 2 9 0
To John Mucle for working 5
coverings 8s. per p. . . 2 0 0^
To the couper in Earlston in full 2 15 O
To Lethem, smith, ane old account
for chimnys, etc. . . . 36 00
S. 694 19 2
M
Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
8
0
0
7
0
0
4
0
0
8
0
178 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
London, January 1715. Household Furniture.
[Furnishings]
For 4 litle chena frute dishes
For a dusone wine glases 6£, 2 Ale
Glases Is. .
For 2 crewits Is., 2 water botles 3s.
For 21 water glases 8s.
For 6 litle green Tee cups and
sassers . . . . . 0 8 0
For 4 big dishes from Fergison at
3s. 6d 0 14 0
For 2 duson of chena truneher
plate fergison
For 4 big Dishes for Frut Fergison
For a big punsh bowl Fergison .
For 2 litle punsh bowls Fergison
For close stoall 10s., a pan 3s. 4d.
For 2 triming cloath
For a Tee ketle 0 7 0, a hatshet for
:, suger Is. ... .
For a spung 6d.
For a new washing tub 5s. 6d., a
second hand tub 3s. 6d.
For a wig block
For a linin skreen
For a coll ridle yron one 2s.,
timer one 6d.
For a head to Coffie Milne .
For 2 Ale jugs 4s., 3 earthen pans
Qd
For a hard Ruber
For a grater and timber spoon 3d.,
2 serches 8d., map 11 .
For a pair sisers for the Dog
For a dusone of knife hafts make-
ing 4s. pr pice and puting on
the creast Ish., the blads 14d. 3 14 0
2
0
0
0
16
0
2
10
0
0
8
0
0
13
4
0
6
4
0
8
0
0
0
6
0
9
0
0
4
6
0
7
0
0
2
6
0
1
6
0
4
9
0
4
6
0
1
10
0
0
6
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 179
Furnishings"
Sterling
For 26 ounces 10 peny wight of
£
s.
d.
new sterline at 5s. 6d. .
7
5
9
For a dusone of forks workman-
ship 3s., graveing creast Is. .
2
8
0
For 26 ounces 4d. weight of new-
sterline at 5s. 6d.
7
4
1
For a coper knif basket
0
10
0
For 2 bowls Is. 6d., a close stool
pan 3s. ....
0
4
6
For a coper tanker .
0
2
6
For a writing table .
0
0
0
For a close box 10s., a puther pan
os. .....
0
13
0
Ap. 20
For mending the Hamer .
0
1
4
May
For a brush to the servants
For fraught of 5 beds, 12 pr
0
0
10
blankets, bolster piller twills .
0
12
0
For other expences in bring them
out of the ship
0
9
4
For a hard ruber Is. 6d., 2 chamber
pots 10 ....
0
2
4
For a paill 2s. .
0
2
0
For 2 broun china litle plates
0
5
0
For ane ovel Dutch table 6 cups
and sassers ....
1
10
0
For a Honn to sharp razors
0
8
0
To Mrs. Couper for a blew camblet
bed .....
6
0
0
For ane yron foot to the Marble
table . . .
0
5
0
For a sea Green Camblet Bed .
8
18
0
For a Japan Lief to hand about
Tee
0
5
0
For 2 dressing Glasses for my
self and Grisie with drawers .
2
14
0
For 3 knives and forks
0
1
6
For a duson of wine Glases 8s., 2
glas mug? 2s., 2 Ale glas 2s.
0
12
0
180
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Furnishings]
For 4 white basons .
For brass nails for chimny brushes
cilj OCl* • • • • •
For 2 hooks of brass for curtins Is.
For a coper Callender
For a big coper pot for Bear
For a nother les copper pot for
bear .....
For a pair Kitchen Bellis
For a pair bellies to the Landry .
For a brass choffer with bras foot
For a top to the Lanthorn of tinn
For a fether bed bolster and
pillows from Mrs. Murray
For a dressing glass to May and
Rachel ....
For mending the stair sconce
For scales and weights and broads
and weights
For a hook to hold my keys
For 4 duson truncher plates and a
bason of puther
For 38 foot Mullers
dyed pear tree for
prints at 6d. and 4d.
pr foot . . 0 15 10
For 19| foot dyed peer
tree mullers the smal
picturs at 3d. the
midle size at 4d. the
largest size at 5d. by
Mr. Lasaget . . 2 18 0 ,
For a bed from Mrs. Simson and
bolsters ....
For 2 earthen pots for salting meat
For 2 timber plates for takeing up
meat out of a pot .
[1715
Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
3
4
0
3
0
0
1
0
0
8
0
0
7
0
0
6
0
0
4
0
0
3
0
1
0
0
0
2
0
3
0
0
0
15
0
0
3
0
1
4
0
0
8
0
3
19
6
3 13 10
3 0 0
0 2 4
0 3 6
£
s.
d.
0
1
6
0
14
0
0
0
10
0
0
8
3
10
0
0
1
10
14
0
0
25
0
0
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 181
[Furnishings] [Sterling]
For a brass tinder box
For ane English blanket to my
own bed ....
For a clock pin with 10 pins
For 6 litle hard brushes 8d,
Aug. 26 For 52 els linin for shiets from
May Minzies
For ane yron scewer with a wight
a long one for spiting small foul
4 others lesser
For a chinny glass in one pice 54|
by 221 Mr. Turin
For a large Glass in a Glase fram
For a writting Dask on wheels
walnut tree Mr. Turin . . 7 0 0
For a pair bellies 5sh., a hearth
brush 18d. of walnut tree
For a pair litle hand sconces
For 3 pices yellow Damask for
window curtins
For 6 pices Green Damask for
hangins, chairs and window
curtins from Piter Hambly
For Mattine 3s. 4d. to the entry
For a litle Tee pot 3s. 6d., a plate
to it 9d., glas suger box Is. .
For a brass pestel to a morter .
Sep. 18 For 3 litle stools
To Mr. Scots man for ane Indian
Matt bringing . . . 0 10
For a pair tongs, shuvel, and
Poker to the Kitchen
For a trivit to stove halls .
For a pair brass tongs and poker
For a glass Lamp 9sh., the yron
to fix it at the door 30d.
For a Backie for Tee dishes
0
6
6
0
5
0
18
0
0
36
0
0
0
3
6
0
5
3
0
1
0
0
3
0
0
8
0
0
0
10
0
16
0
0
11
0
0
4
0
182 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Furnishings] [Sterling]
For a pair Bellies
For a wire sive for the sinders
For a glass to the wemens room
For 2 basons Is., a chamber pot
6d
For a Callico Twilt to the blew bed
For ane yroning blanket .
For 2 porangers 3d., a litle pan 2d.
For a spunge to the chambermaid
6d. .....
For a saffron botle 3s.
For a large chist of drawers
For a table with Drawers for the
Cupboord ....
For a hanging and 2 corner shelfs
to the Cupboord .
For 2 hanging shelfs in my Closet
For 60 clock pins at peny a pice .
For a firr table for dressing of
linins .....
For a furm to the Kitchin .
For a Basket for cloathes
For 9 wine glases
For a pair glass sconces to the
litle drawin room .
For black Japan Frams for picturs
at 2d. and Ij^d. .
For dyed pear tree frams at 3d.,
4d. and 5d. a foot
For 2 frames to the picturs more
For a pair of Raxes and a chean
to the Jack ....
For a brass fender
For a chimny pice
For a yellow Moyhair bed and
stuff Tourdelie 2 window
curtins ....
£
s.
d.
0
3
6
0
2
0
0
2
0
0
1
6
1
5
0
0
3
0
0
0
5
0
0
6
0
3
0
2
5
0
0
14
0
0
10
0
0
10
0
0
5
0
0
10
0
0
5
0
0
1
6
0
6
0
0
14
0
1
0
0
5
0
0
0
2
0
0
10
0
0
15
0
2
10
0
46
0
0
1715] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 183
[Furnishings]
For a glas 6 foot high
For 2 chimny glasses with black
frams and 2 pair of glas
sconces ....
For a lage glass with black frame
For a large Glass with glas frame
For a chimny glass with guilt
frame .....
For a chimny Glass with glas
frame .....
■' For a litle chimny glass wt black
frame .....
For a large Glass with black
frame .....
For 2 black japan tables with
green plush
For 2 blew Bundet window
curtins ....
For a japan Tee Table
For a litle glass with black frame
For 12 japan chairs, 2 Arm chairs,
2 stools ....
For 6 Kain chairs at 12s, a pice .
For 4 black chairs with rush
bottoms ....
For 2 beds Green and blew for
servants 2£ each .
For 2 fatherbeds, 2 bolsters, 2
pillows, 2 twilts, 4 blankets .
For 2 folding beds for the abovesd
beding for servants
For a large Marbel table a litle
table and 2 window soils
For 4 window kain sashes
For a wanescot table for 8 sitters
10s., one for 5 sitters 5s.
For a book case with looking glass
[Sterling
£ s. d.
5 14 0
7 0
7 0
13 0
0
0
0
3 0
0
4 15
0
1 9
0
5 10
0
3 5
0
3 0
1 10
1 15
0
0
0
5 10
3 12
0
0
0 8
0
4 0
0
6 0
0
1 4
0
6 0
2 10
0
0
0 15
7 18
0
0
184 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Furnishings]
For 2 Portigal Matts for floors .
For 2 litle guilt sconces
For a japan corner cupboord with
a table fixt to it .
For 2 wanscots tables and a
blacke one each 4s.
For 3 chimny graits of one sort
with yron fenders tongs etc. .
For a grate ....
For a Landry grate and grate for
heating yrons
For a hearth and endyrons and
brass tongs and shuvell .
For a smothing table 8s., a long
brod for washing on starch 8s.
For the stair lantron 6s., 2 stair
sconces 7s. .
For a House Lader 8s., a Horse
for drying linins 7s.
For a coper for washing
For a banch 5s., 4 tubs 10s., a
water tub 6s., litle standert 6d.
For a Kitchin grate 18s., with
cran 6s., tongs, poker, etc. 5 .
For a litle rax and 2 speets 6s.,
pot hook Is., a gridyron 18d. .
For a coper pot 16lb 18s., a pot
lOlb 10s., 2 stew pans 10s.
For 2 sauce pans 8s., a brass
Ketle 14s., a bras morter 2s. 6d.
For a driping pan and foot 3s., a
truncher stand 8s., frying pan
loQ. • • . . •
For a brass ladle and skumer 2s.,
a trivet 2s., a plate rack 3s.
For 3 brass candle sticks, snuffers
9s., 2 yron ons Is.
St(
£
erlir
s.
d.
1
0
0
0
6
0
0
10
0
0
12
0
5
2
0
0
15
0
0
5
0
1
17
0
0
16
0
0
13
0
0
15
0
3
0
0
1
1
6
1
9
0
0
8
6
1
18
0
1
4
6
0
12
6
0
7
0
0
10
0
^715]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
185
[Furnishings]
For a floor barril Is., tinn candle
box Is., a folding table 3s.
For ane yron coll basket 3s., a
roling ston 18s. .
For a Red and white Marbel table
at 5s. a foot ....
For Rid japan Bellis and brush
6s., bought on ye Terns ^
For a brun vernisht tee brood
bought on the yce on Terns ^ .
For a purple and white Devon-
shire Marble table 5s. a foot .
For sume wrong caried over page
368 ....
For a shad shuvel
For a puther chamber pote
For green tape and silk to
chairs
For a fine slap basone
For a litle Tee broad
For a pittipan to ane ashet
For a grate for Jerriswoods closet
For a pair bras tongs and shuvel
For a brass fender
For a coper scutle
For a new fashond coper scuttel
For 18 bras pins at 3d.
For a hearth and dogs
For a back to the Hearth .
For a pair Bellows — walnut tree
For ane extinguisher
For ane browning yron
For a stiel to warm water
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 5 0
110
1 10 0
0 6 0
0 2 0
12 6
0
3
0
0
1
6
0
2
6
e
0
2
7
1
5
0
0
3
0
0
1
0
t
1
16
0
0
14
0
0
12
0
1
1
6
1
0
0
0
4
6
1
3
0
0
5
0
0
4
6
0
1
0
0
4
0
0
2
0
^ 'In the winter of 1715-16 the frost was again so intensely severe that the
river Thames was frozen over during almost the space of three months. Booths
were erected on the congealed river for the sale of all kinds of commodities and
all the fun of the fair of 1684 was revived. On 19 January 1716 two large oxen
•were roasted whole on the \Q.Q.'—Old ami New London, by Edward Walford,
186 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1715
[Furnishings]
For a coll rack 2s. .
For a tinn'd Basket for Plates
For a litle china Tee pot a saffron
pot at 5s. .
For 4 pieces of the Green Damask
of my furnitur
For a Cavie for chickens .
For a silver stand for small wax
candle weight 6 ounces
For a case to the bige knives etc.
For a pair Glas Branches
For 11 litle picturs glased .
For a litle wooden cooller .
For a table bed with canves
Bottem to the Landry .
For 2 large glas sconces from
Turin . . . . .
NovT. 16 For a powdering tub 6s., a meal
barrill Is. .
For 8 yd hollon for one sheat at
4s. the ell .
For a powdering tub
For 9 yd a quarter holland for the
uper shiet 4s. 6d. the ell
For the easie chair with rid
Damask cushon
For a Balband screen
For 12 knives weight 26 ounces
and 3 peny weight at 5s. 6d. .
For 12 forks 12 spoons weight 33
ounc 1 peny 5s. 6d.
For the fashon of knif 9s., spoons
and forks 2s. 6d., engraveing Is.
For a case to them l£ all made by
Platel ....
For ane fine blanket to my own
bed .....
Sterling]
£ s. d.
0 2 0
0 6 0
0 5
0
24 0
0 5
0
0
1 18
1 4
0 12
0 5
0 2
0
0
0
6
6
1 5
0
3 10
0
0 7
0
1 8
0 6
0
0
1 12
n 6
4 1
1 1
0
6
7 3
9
9 1
9
10 4
0
1 0
0
0 14
0
I7I5]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
187
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I
[Furnishings]
For a Blanket to my Doughters
bed
To Ocheltr}' for working 20 yd.
Damask Table cloathes .
For boyling 27 spinell yeron
For winding werping and dresing
the yeren ....
For Blitching the Table cloathes
For changing the big salver
weighting 58 ounces at 5s. 7d.
and Is. the ounce workmanship
For puting a handel in the Milk
pot .....
For puting the extinguisher to
the Tee Ketle and mending it
For Damask Table cloath and 12
servits ....
For a steling to the iner seller 7s..
a shelf 2s. 6d.
For 2 sumter trunks
For scouring 35 pr blankets at
Mellerstaine
For 10 walnut tree chairs wt
mated seats l£ 8s.
For 2 stoolls of the mated chairs .
For a yellow Callamanca easie
chair .....
For a iitle folding walnuttree table
For 10 chairs stuft back and seat
beside the Damask at l£ 15s.
and 4 squar stools of the same
at l£ 6s. .
For a settle stuff of the same above
For a f ram to a fire screen .
For a walnut tree book case
For a fram to a marbel table
For 4 Iitle stufft stools these in to
the bargon
[Sterling
£ s. d.
5
0
0
4
0
6
0
0
6
16
2
8
2
4
6
0
2
6
0
10
0
4
11
0
0
4
9
0
6
0
0 6 0
4
0
0
2
3
0
5
0
0
1
0
0
22 14 0
4 6 0
116
3 0 0
1 10 0
188
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1715
[Furnishings] [Sterling]
The Dininroom great and harth £ s. d.
grate 2£ 5s. hearth 4£ . . 6 5 0
For a fish Ketle weight 18 lb. at 2s. 1 16 0
For makeing 8 Damask window
Curtins with 4 seats two pieces
of hangins all furniture but the
Damask by John Sanderson . 26 0 0
£559 0
^12
Deburst for cloathes
Scots
Aprill 1693 To ane acount pay'd to Mr.
Ditto
Robert Blackwood per recept
37
14
0
May 12
To acount to Baillie Pat John-
ston quhich is all presiding
this day ....
213
6
0
For a white Damask wastcoatt .
17
16
0
For strip muslin for cravat and
slives .....
5
8
0
For 2 pair shoes
5
8
0
Jun. 30
To John Ross for shoes quhich is
all he can crave
4
16
0
For shoes from Georg Ross
13
4
0
For linint for shirts and froks .
33
6
0
For a hat ....
7
16
0
Novr. To James Richy acount of
22d. cloaths got befor Sept. 1691
and all acounts preciding this
day 174 0 0
To the night goun Jeany ^ got . 36 0 0
1694 For black crap for a goun and
Apr. 20 coat at lib. 5s. per ell . . 24 0 0
Ditto For lace to shirt hands at 2lb. per
ell 25 14 0
^ Lady Grisell's sister afterwards married James, seventh Lord Torphichen.
1695] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 189
[Clothing] [Scots]
For 3 ells galoun to a coat .
July 18 For buff to be briches
August For boots 13lb 4s. shoes 2lb. 4s. .
For 2 pair shoes from Andrew
Baird .....
For making the buff briches and
gloves .....
Novr. 1st For ternin for a goun to Gris
Decmr. For 3 ells h Belliden silk fring
lib 16, making Grises goun
lib. 16 ....
For shoes 2lb. 16, for black cloath
for goun at 23sh. st. per ell
For shoes to Robin 9s., froks to
him, pladin to him 3lb. .
1695 For stays to my Robin lib. 6s. .
For 4 ells muslin for morning for
the Quin ....
For rubans lib. 6s., black shoes
2lb. 8s., shambo glovs 2lb. 14s.
May For a bongrace to my Robin 12,
one to Gris 12s., thread 2s.
For a love hud 3lb 10s. For a
snuf-napken 2lb. 10
For under stokens
For making Grises goun lib. 16,
shirts and wascoats to her and
Robin .....
For worsit for strips lib. and
working 2 pair
For a mask lib., cuting shoes 8s.,
dying and washing 3lb. 12s. .
For a campain wig from Manson
5 dollars ....
July For a pair cotten stokins .
20 For 2 pair shoes 4lb. 16s. to the
man 3s. 6d. ....
£ s.
d.
2 4
0
13 4
0
15 8
0
3 8
0
1 16
0
2 4
0
2 12
0
78 4
0
3 9
0
1 6
0
13 4
0
6 8
0
1 18
0
6 0
0
0 18
0
9 3
0
1 18
0
5 0
0
14 10
0
4 0
0
5 19
6
190
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1695
[Clothing]
For fiirnitur to a peticoat .
For pladin to my Robin .
For a pair silk slipers with silk
and waltin furnisht
For lace to the bairnes and
August For holland from Holland
For plying to a goun lib. 16 for
flanen 2lb. 12 . . .
For dressing the rid ridin coat
4lb. 8 .
To shoes to Gris 12s. for flanell
Jd^ x^S. • • • •
Sept. To Grahme for a hat
To linin for Robin 3lb. 4, stuff to
him lib. 4s., blew base to him
J.J.L/a • • • • •
Novr. To a frok to Gris 2lb. 3s., for lace
1st to her lib. 10 . .
For 2 pair shoes 5lb. 10, Forone
pair 2lb. 14 .
For pladin to Robin and stuff to
Gris 21b. 6s. ...
For bustin 2tb. 8, for flanell 2}b. 2s.
3 ells lace 2tb. 14s.
For blew shirts litting and Grises
goun litting ....
For linin 17s. For making Grises
goun 3tb. stokins lis. .
Decmr. To Mr. Robert Blackwood per
acount . .
To Lapairl tags for crap .
[Scots'
£ s. d.
0 18 0
0 18 0
1 4
13 10
29 0
0
0
0
4 8
0
4 8
0
3 4
12 0
0
0
5 8
0
3 13
0
7 4
0
2 6
0
6 14
0
3 0
0
4 8
0
22 3
1 0
0
0
S. 914 0 0
1696]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
191
[Clothing]
Deburst for cloathes for 1696.
January For 10 ells Flanen at 16s. per ell
For gloves to Grisie 9s. 6d. en ell
flanen ....
For linin for litle cloathes .
For 2 pair understokens
For stokens to Gris .
To mor linin for litle cloathes
Febr. 10 To muslin for 3 napkens .
For a pair understokins
For shoes to Grisi: 10s. F.
Ditto 28 For my childs dead linen ^
For pladin to Rachy 11. 3s. linin
for her froks and for shirts
For camrick to slives
For linin to be shirts
For a muslin cravat .
For shoes 21. 18s.
For a long wig from Manson
For a blew cock to a hat, For
shoes to Grisie and a bongrace
For 2 ells muslin for a cravat
For 2 ells muslin for a cravat
Aprill For a blew cock to a hat, for a
ruban to a staf
For butons to shirts, for ane apron
For 6 ounces worsit for stokens .
For under stokens
For a snuf napken
For a pair shoes to my self .
May For whit bustin for a coat at 21.
per ell .
For a whit fring to it
[Scots]
£ s. d.
8 0 0
1 13 0
1 16 0
2 14 0
0 14 0
16 0
3 0 0
15 0
0 10 0
17 8 0
10 3 0
3 14 0
15 0 0
14 16 0
2 18 0
28 0 0
2 12 0
6 0 0
4 16 0
1 11 0
1 12 0
0 18 0
14 0
2 8 0
1 14 0
10 0 0
3 6 0
^ 'My Robin' died 28 February 1696, and was 'buried by his grandfather
Robert Baillie in the Grafreers Churchyard 3 quarters from Mortons stone.' —
From a note by Lady ^Grisell in a book of MS. songs.
192
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1696-
[Clothing]
For whit flard bustin at 21. 4s. the
ell
For 9 ells black silk stuf for a coat
at 41. 16s. the ell .
For making Grisie a goun .
For a black fring to my coat at 3s
st. the ounce
For a black gos hood
Jun. For bustin to Jeriswoods wast
coats and furnitur to them
For 2 napkins — snuf ons .
July 1st For a wige from Manson Campain
For dying a coat black
For muslin for cravats 5| ells at
ol. oS. ....
For shoes to my self
For shirts to Rachy 21. 12s. 6d
shirts to Gris 21. 15s.
Agst. For stokins to Rachy 18s., Linin
for drauers 41. 10s.
For 2 caps fo my sisters
For 2 ells bustin for a wast coat
For dresing a cap to Gris 31
Shoes to her 11. 6s.
For washing 9 pairs gloves 11. 16s
Understokens 11. 4s.
Novr. For dresing boots 18s. for butons
to wastcoats 6 duson
For 2 shoes to Gris 11. 8s. For
pladin and making cloath to Ra
For making Grisis sadculerd goun
and a rufiiin to it
For shoes to Gris 17s. tape for
cloathes 10s. 6d. .
For a strip flanell coat at 11. 12s.
For a sute of cloathes from John
Hoburn of cloath .
For an alamod skerf
Scots
£ s. d.
11
0
0
43
4
0
4
2
0
27
0
0
1
12
6
6
0
0
2
3
0
15
0
0
2
0
0
26
14
0
3
8
0
5 7 6
5
8
0
15
12
0
1
12
0
4
6
0
3
0
0
1
14
0
3
6
0
7
1
0
1
7
6
4
0
0
81
2
0
20
10
00
1698]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
193
[Clothing]
For stript stuf to Grisie
Janr. For shoes and slipers to J .
For making a velvit cap 12s. to
cambrick and muslin to cravats
To Roses wife an account for shoes
"Scots'
£
s.
d.
6
0
0
7
4
0.
9
12
0
8
2
0
S. 476 00 00
To the expence of cloatheS; 1698.
Janr. 10 To a sute of black cloathes taken
1698 of in Janr. 1697 .
For a sute of black cloothes from
Mr. Blackwood, Mar. 1696
Ditto For lace to shirt hands
11th For 4| ells stript flanill at iti. 16s.
for 2 wastcoats
For muslin I bought at Preston
pans .....
For gloves to Grisy .
For muslin to my self
For a mask ....
For 10 ells blew camlit to a riding
COdiL • • • . •
For sowing of things when I went
to England ....
For bustin to a wastcoat
For lining to Rachys shirts and
drawers to Grisy 14 ells
For lining bought from Ms.
Abercrummy
For lace to the bairens
For gloves to Grisy .
For rabitt skins to lin briches
with .....
For making Grisies goun .
N
54 0
0
73 15
0
26 15
0
7 13
0
85 05
0-
0 15
0
9 14
0
0 18
0-
17 00
oa
6 00
0
2 15
0
7 04
0
9 5
0
5 07
0
0 4
0
0 8
0
3 12
0
194.
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1698
Clothing^
Scots]
£ s. d.
For shoes to Grisy .
0 16 0
For gloves to Gris
1 10 0
For a bongrace to her
0 12 0
For wirsit to be stokens to her ,
0 15 0
For eggin
0 13 6
S. 313 16 6
Febr
Edenburgh, January 1702. Cloathes.
Debet to
Cash.
Scots
For 2 pair gloves to the bairens .
0
12
0
For 3 ells lace at 18s. the ell
2
12
0
23d For 4 yeards white rubans to the
bairens ....
3
16
0
For lace to shirt hands at £3 the
ell
\^xx • . • • • •
7
10
0
For shoes to Grisie .
1
2
0
For boots bought from Bruther-
sxcBjUS • • • • •
11
12
0
For drinkmony
0
7
0
For 2 pair gloves
1
4
0
Dr. 27 For 3 pairt of shoes from Bruther-
steans in pairt of payment at
4s. 6d. the pair
6
10
0
To Cowin Taylor to a pairt of his
accumpt ....
6
10
0
For working stokins to Jer. 18s.
for on stokin 10 .
1
9
0
For spining wirsit for stokins and
0 1
I ib. bought ....
1
16
For black gloves
1
0
0
For 2 pair of gloves .
1
4
0
For 20 ells Maskarad for gown
and peticoat
30
0
0
4 0
0
1 10
0
0 15
0
2 5
0
0 15
0
15 19
0
42 12
0
1702] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 195
[Clothing] [Scots]
£ s. d.
For strip flanen coats to the
bairens ....
For serg to line a wastcoat
For taill borders the bairens
For linin to the bairens
For a pair black gloves
To calico the bairenses gowns is
made of
Aprill For a wige from Shin 3 guinys
To Cop for puting up the wige and
finding it for me . . . 19 0
For wires 2s. For making up
ane old goun 18 .
For 13 ells lace from Jean Cheasly
For a pair of cloath shoes makmg
For makeing up my old goun
For a side of a night goun of strip
SH-Lin • • * • •
For a fan ....
For working a pair of stokins to J
For plading to pice a plying of a
goun ...
May For 11 ells of lace for the bairens
For making Grisies and covering
Rachys gouns
For shoes to Grisie £l, more £l 4
For 24 ells stuf working at 5 per
June For a cravat from Ramsay
For 2l ell strip bustin for a wast-
cod/L • • • • •
For gloves £2 10s., for shoes £2,
muslin £4 18s.
For muslin to cravats
For 2 pair under stokins
For 50 ells linin for shifts
For holland for shirts
1
0
0
2
14
0
1
16
0
0
18
0
14
0
0
0
18
0
1
10
0
0
16
0
11
0
0
5
0
0
2
4
0
7
4
0
7
4
0
2
14
0
9
8
0
16
4
0
3
0
0
50
0
0
42
0
0
196 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1702
[Clothing]
August To Francy Newton for muslin paid
accounts for cravats and
childrin and my own morning
For silk handcurchefs to the
childrin ....
August For 2 pair black stokins
29 For hatband and black gloves
For calico to the childrin .
For snuf handcurchefs 6 .
For a black fan £l 12s. 3 masks
£4
For necklace and eyrrings £l 8s.
white silk gloves £3 12 .
For a black silk belt 18s. .
For tape threed shoestrings etc.
per F. N. .
For shoes to myself £l 16, shoes
to Gris, £2 .
For cleaning and dying the camlit
goun, bairens gouns, etc.
For a black sword £7 4s. for 3
quarter shed muslin 3sh. sterling
For working stokings £l 10s.
For a hatt £5 16s., strings 6s.,
butons for shirts £l, Le'pairls
14s. 6d. ....
For threed £l 16s., for sowing by
my Ant Couls ^ maid 18s.
To a taylor at Mellersteans £l 18s.,
a pair gloves 16s.
For shoes to myself £l 16s., shoes
Grisie and R[achel] £l 16s.
For stokins to John Hume
For 6 ells eggine
For lining to a satin night
wastecoat . . . . 110
[Scots"
£ s. d.
41 0
0
7 4
8 14
5 16
15 0
20 0
0
0
0
0
0
5 12
0
5 0
0 18
0
0
11 10
0
3 16
0
4 4
0
9 0
1 10
0
0
7 16
6
2 14
0
2 14
0
3 12
0 18
1 10
0
0
0
' A sister of George Baillie's mother married Sir Alexander Mackenzie of
Coul.
1702]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
197
[Clothing]
Novr. For muslin to the bairens .
20 For 20 ells linin for ther shifts .
For ther second mourning gouns
last 3^ear ....
For 11 ells black crap to line a
goun .....
For a black crap hood
d. 23 To John Haburn for hats and
gloves old account
For twill and burds eye for
drawers ....
For black silk cord for a necklace
Novr. 30 For 4 pair stokins to the bairens
from Ms. Abercrumie
For 9 ells blew grounded callico at
For strong shoes to Mersser
To Rachi's calico nightgoun from
Ms. Hogg ....
For spining wirsit at 18s. per lb
Decmr. From strong shoes from Merser
I tj CO \ • • • « •
For 2 spinell wirsit for stuff
For a belt to Grisie .
For pins 6s., to a taylor 8s., gloves
t/o» • • • • •
For a muff to Rachy
30 For a sute black cloth 2f ells at
£13 10s
For 11 ells black linin for 2 sutes
obX ^S* • • • •
For 5 1 ells black shagrin at £3 6s.
For 6 ells lace ....
For shoes at Kelso to the bairens
For a white satin paticoat from
Lisie Rainalds
Scots]
£ s.
d.
7 4
0
12 0
0
25 6
0
10 0
0
5 8
0
27 8
0
5 0
0
0 10
0
4 0
0
16 4
0
3 14
0
15 1
6
0 18
0
3 14
0
2 10
0
0 18
0
0 19
0
0 18
0
37 2
6
11 16
6
18 9
0
6 0
0
5 2
0
24 0
0
S. 729 2 0
198 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1707
Edinburgh, January 1st 1707. Cloathes. Deb.
to Cash. [Scots]
For a pair boots from Mersser . 12 0 0
To Merssers man . . . 0 7 0
To Merstone 2 pair Campagn
shoes . . . . . 7 8 0
To him for a pair marican, ap:
calf lather . . . . 5 8 0
For my Poplin goun and coat . 97 0 0
For helping my Tipper £l 16s.,
safer for the juell £l 10 . 3 6 0
For stript muslin for heads £5,
more £4 5s., more £2 12s., £2
5s 14 2 0
For shoes to Rachy lac'd £2 8s.,
serg tair border 16s.
For strips to J.
For serge for lining
For a duson kids to my self at
Pearth 12sh., 6 pair to Rach:
6s. 6d. .....
To drmk mony to a taylor 14s. 6d.
April For last somers drogat dying and
stokins ....
For 9 ells drogat dy'd over again
For a pair stokins dying
For shoes to Rachy £l Is., 2 black
neckleses 8s. . . . 1 10 0
For eggin £2 13s., washing 3 pair
gloves 10s., 6s. 6d., 6s. 6d.
For black ruban to slives £l 6s., 3s.
For stokins £l 8s., silk 7s., threed
8s. 6d., Is. 6d. .
For a taylor in the house £1 8s. .
For patches 6s., blew serg for
Grisies coat helping £l Is. . 17 0
For mending the bairens dust-
gouns . . . . . 1 12 0
3
4
0
1
4
0
4
4
0
1
2
0
3
12
6
7
0
0
1
16
0
1
5
0
3 16
0
1 9
0
1 17
0
1 8
0
1707] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 19&
[Clothing]
For gloves £2 4s., £2 8s. 6d.
For 3 ells black silk for aprons at
8s. per ell .
For rubans to the borders and
strings of the aprons
For cotton threed 3s. lOd., shoes
3s. 6d. .....
For ane ell plain muslin £3 6s.,
threed 5 8d. ....
For linin to Rachys calls [?collars]
lis., for 11 ell linin for 6 shifts
to her .....
For muslin to Grisie £2 16 gas
handcurchefs £5 14 for 2
For a pair black silk gloves £3 6s.
To Grisell Robison for sowing .
For a big staind satin nightgoun
For 18^ ell egin at lis. 6d. per ell
£10 10s. more £2 4s. 8d. .
For 10 ells satin to line Grisies
taby goun ....
For Scots muslin for night cloathes
For a hatt £4 4s., shoes £2 18s
stokins £1 .
For gloves to the bairens and
myself last year
For stript muslin £13 14s. 6d.,
eggin £13 10s.
For thi-eed 10s., 3s. 6d., 3s., 4s.,
14s., tape 6s. stentin 4s. 4d.,
threed 8s. 4s. ...
For 8| ell camlit for sourtoot
4d., butons to it £3 6 per el,
£3 4
For sarge to line the coat
For stokins £l 4s., a handcurcher
black and white £19.
Scots]
£ s. d.
4 12 6
15 12
0
1 5
10
0 7
4
3 11
8
6 11
0
8 10
3 6
3 12
48 0
0
0
6
0
12 14
8
26 0
5 6
0
0
8 2
a
18 12
0
27 4
0
2 17
2
21 1
9 0
0
0
2 13
0
200
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1707
[Clothing]
For fine musline a sute £7 17s. 6,
2 1 strip camrik £4 10
Vov 1| muslin for Rachy
For shoes to Grisie and Rachy
made by John Blyth
For 1 ell[?] musline to Rachy
£3 6s. ...
For threed £2 10s., laces 15s.
tape 2s. 4d., knitins 10s.
For 3 ell linin for calls £3, 3 ell
Scots cambrick plain
For 14 ells stript Scots cambrick
different prices
For shoes 5s. 6d., nidles 4s. 6d.
a comb lis., shoes 6s.
For a belt to Grisi 18s., knitons
5s., nidles 3s. J 100
For threed and silk 15s., p. tape
7s., ruban 6s., pins 7s. 2s.
For a scor linin for drawers
For a pair slipers £l 6s., half ell
moskarad lis., threed 6
For 6 ells silk waltins
For 25 ells cloath for shirts to my
self and the bairenses shirts at
£1 2s. 6, 26 ells at £l 6d., 21 ell
at 10s. per ell for drawers
For 2 ell plain cambrick .
For ane ell stript cambrick and
ane ell musline
For a black lace 9s., a pair wirsite
under stokens
To Will Cowin taylore
For a pair threed stokens 13s. 6d.
riding stokens 14s.
For 18 ells Holland £2 19 per ell
for shirts ....
For 2 ells cambrick .
[Scots]
£ s. d.
12 7 6
4 7 0
8 18 0
3 6 0
2 17 4
2 8 0
20 10 0
17 0
16 0
1 17 0
10 16 0
1 17 6
0 18 0
55 0 0
3 18 10
3 5 0
1 10 0
40 0 0
17 0
53 2 0
3 8 0
1707]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
201
[Clothing]
For 4 ells lace at 3sh. per ell
For 24 shirts sowing at 3s. per
pice, etc. ....
For silk 13s., tape pins £l, yellow
ruban £2 2s. ...
For one ell I kelt for gramashes .
For 12 ells unblitcht linin at 12s.
per ell .
For 20 ell drogate bought by Milne
Octr. For 21 ell Holland from Francis
Newton, shirts
For a lutstring hood of 2| ell from
ditto .....
For calico to the bairenses 2 gouns
outsid and in . . .
For a lutstring hood 2^ .
For 2 ells Holland 4s. 8 .
'Octor. 3 For 10 ells musline and a half
for sutes from Francis Newton
since Martimas last at sundry
prices .....
For a black gaz hood £2 5, black
gloves 2 pair £2 6s.
For 11 J ell fin cambrick for
ruffils at sundry prices from
Francis Newton since Martimas
Xdo Lf • • • • •
For rubans in ditto time F. N.
For 2 fans £2 8s. 2 p.
For patons £2 8
For threed lupin pins, etc.
For 10 ell stript musline at 6s. 6d
per ell, 10 ell plain muslin 6s
6d., 10 ell stript at 6s. got from
Francie Newton and taken to
London with me .
For 4 ell lace to shirts
Scots]
£
s.
d.
7
4
0
4
12
0
3
15
0
2
5
0
7
4
0
3
0
0
62
16
0
8
2
0
18
18
6
8
2
0
5
12
0
34 6 6
4 11 0
52 14 6
27 7 0
2 8 0
2 8 0
23 16 0
114 0 0
7 4 0
202
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1707
[Clothing]
Oct. 3d For cloathes in full of all accounts
to Will Cowin
For a sute black cloathes from
Sr. Ro: Blackwood
[Scots]
£ s. d.
50 0 0
72 0 0
S. 1171 8 10
Mellerstaines, January 1710. Cloathes.
Deb.
to Cash.
St
g-
For cloathes to Grisie and Rachell
in Edinburgh when they were in
morning ....
12
14
0
For cloathes to my self in Edin-
burgh ....
0
15
0
For gloves to Jerri s wood .
0
17
a
For patches pins etc.
0
2
0
For a stone gray cloath petticoat
1
10
0
For some small things at Kelso for
my mornins
0
5
6
For black cloath to help my goun
1
05
0
For black shoes 2 pair
0
6
0
For plain musline
1
1
8
For love hood 10s., black gloves
4s. 6d. .....
0
14
&
For black silk gloves 6s., vellam Is.,
serge 2s. ... .
0
9
0
For stokins 2s. 6d., plain shoes 3s.
4d. .....
0
5
10
For Grisie and Rachy musline .
2
0
0
For cloath to help Grisies goun .
1
5
0
For shoes to Rachie 6s., stokins
2s. 6d. .....
0
8
6
For a neckles lOd.
0
0
10
For a gas napken 5s., lining silk to
help a goun
0
7
9-
I7I0] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 203
[Clothing]
24 14 1 For silk gloves to Rachell .
17 0 For ruban 6d. all the abovesaid
for mornings excep for gloves
23 71 1 17s
For 8 ells holland for Grisies goun
at 6s. 6d. ....
March 1 For pins threed, etc.
For 4 yard plain musline at 5s. 6d.
per yard ....
Ap. 4th For 5 ell prying to Rachys night
goun .....
For 5| ell plying to my callico
goun .....
For lining to help nightcloathes
For bustine for pokets
For 6| ell cambrick for night-
cloathes ....
For 2 pair gloves to Rachy
Maj' 31 To William Dickson taylor for 15
days . . . , .
For a silk lace ....
For 40 ells linin for shifts and
aprons at 2s. the ell from
James Ainsl}^
For 17 ells linin for drawers at Ish.
4d. from James Ainsly
August For 40 ells linin for Grisies shifts
from Lithgow
For pins, etc. ....
Aug. 16 For holland cambrick musline
and severall other things at
Grisies mariage as per Francis
Newtons account . . 38 11 0
For altering two gouns by
Finlisone . . . . 0 5 0
For 20 ells Unins for the bairens's
shifts 1 13 4
Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
6
0
0
0
6
2
12
0
0
2
6
1
2
0
0
3
0
0
3
lOf
0
0
8|
0
2
6
1
18
9
0
2
0
0
5
0
0
]
0
2
0
0
1
2
8
5
0
0
0
2
0
£
s.
d.
2
9
0
3
4
0
0
7
0
0
3
0
0
2
0
1
0
0
0
3
6
204 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Clothing] [Sterling]
For 21 ells linin for my own shifts
at 2sh. 4d. ....
For musline for night cloathes,
ruffles, tukers, etc.
For 2 snuf handkerchiefs
For a silk handkerchief
For 2 litle blew and white napkins
For gloves for Jerriswood
For shoes to Rachel 1
For a pair of boots from
Messer . . . . 10 0
For drinkmony to his man and
for liquering boots . . 0 01 0
For gloves to Rachy 6s., washing
gloves 2s 0 8 0
For gloves to Jerriswood 2sh.,
washing gloves 4sh. 8d. . . 0 6 8
To Grisie Lamb for sowing shirts
at 3d.| per pice . . . 0 2 8
For black silk for ane apron at
6sh 0 9 0
For gloves Is. 6d., working frienge
to my aprone 6d^ . . 0 2 Oj^
To Mr. Weems for my Tabic goun
and coat and lining . . 11 7 0
For sowing Grisies holland coat
18s. the ell square . . 2 12 6
For a pice musline got from
Provist Broun 1705 . . 5 10 0
For gloves from Liviston at Grisies
marriage . . . . 4 10 0
For altering two gouns to Rachy
by Ms. Duncan . . . 2 0 0
For 6f ells fine lace at 26sh. per
ell for a head sute to Rachy from
Lewis Pringle . . . 8 15 6
For a taill border to Grisies sowed
coat . . . . . 0 5 6
I7I0] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 205
[Clothing] [Sterling]
For severall small things such as £ s. d,
pines, tape, threed, etc. . . 0 8 6
For a pice knitins . . . 0 0 6
For Grisies brids favorits . . 3 10 6
For 4 ells ruban 12s. and silver
tasels 10s. for her brids garters 12 0
For ruband for the brids garland
thats brock over her head . 0 3 0
For a head sute fine laces to Grisie
£10 9s. 9d., ruffels £5 8s. . 15 17 9
For lace to shift tuckers and
egins, etc. . . . . 15 6 0
For Grisies best night cloathes
and ruffles . . . . 3 12 0
For a linin to the sow'd goun . 3 16 0
For two pices of holland by Ms.
Crafford . . . . 9 9 0
For a headsute of narrow lace to
Grisie and ruffles . . . 4 10 0
For lace for tuckert and egin . 2 10 0
For fine musline for Grisies apron
and heads, etc. . . . 1 14 0
For rubans to Grisies night
cloathes ....
For ruffels to Rachys fine head .
Aug: For egine to a sute to Rachy
For sowing linins at the mariage
For a gold and white handkerchieff
For Grisies slipers
For 2 pair slipers and a pair shoes
For gloves at the mariage from
Ms. Burn . . . . 10 0
To Ms. Lyon manto makers ac-
count .....
For shoes to Jerriswood
For a hatt at the mariage
For a sute cloathes trim'd with
silver for Grisie, a sute trim'd
0 12
0
2 11
0
1 16
8
2 13
8
0 10
0
0 10
a
0 8
6
1
0
0
0
5
0
0
9
0
206
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1710
[Clothing] [Sterling]
with silk to Rachy, a skerff to £ s, d.
each, and stokins, shoes, rubans,
fans and handkerchieffs and 3
big night gouns and stays for
Grisies mariage . . . 112 8 6
For small things from Char;
Ormstons . . . . 0 7 4
For green satine to Grisies
peticoat . . . . 2 7 3
For gold galoun to the green
peticoat . . . . 16 3
S. 315 1 9
London, January 1st, 1717. Ac
Dearests Cloathes.
For 5 yd cloath at 17s. 6d. .
For 5 yd black cloath at 17s.
feb. 28 For a hat
For scouring 2 pr stokens
For silk stokens
For a scabert to a sword
For Black gloves 16d.
For a Duson of gloves
For Musline for Cravats at 7s.
For makeing 3 suts cloath by
Whisle at 2 guinys the sute I
furnishing linin and buttons to
coat and wastcoat
For some linin he bought for the
cloathes ....
March 2 For a wige from Robert Boe
For 16 yd shagreen at 3s. 6d.
For 15 yd drogat at 3s. 6d.
May 28 For 16 yd shagreen for the sute
int of my
Stg.
4 7
6
4 5
0
1 1
6
0 2
0
0 14
0
0 2
6
0 15
0
3 7
6
6 9 0
18 0
3 4 6
2 16 0
2 12 6
1.717]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
207
[Clothing;
[Sterling'
and 6 yd for the Bragad wast-
£
s.
d.
coat .....
4
4
0
For a yd more linin to the wast-
coat .....
0
3
6
For 3 pr under stokens 10s. 6d.,
2 pr stryps 6s. .
0
16
6
For 3| yd Gold Brogade for a
wastecoat ....
10
10
0
For a wige ....
3
4
6
For a pair silk stokens
0
17
0
For cleaning stuff coats, cleaning
black cloathes Is. .
0
2
0
For 4 pr shoes from Broun
1
4
0
For mending a sword
0
1
0
For gloves 8s. 8d.
0
8
8
For 3d. 3 buttons at 2s. 6d. 3d.|
at 12d. 2 wastbands 3d.
0
11
lOj^
For a hatt l£ Is. 6d., 2 hair skins
3s., another 3s. .
1
7
6
For a pair silk stokins 15s., scour-
ing cloathes 2s. 6d.
0
17
6
For a cotton satine goun 2£
2
0
0
wrong For a glas weight for Lady
Margrat Hamilton
0
7
0
For holland from Cycell Wray .
1
4
10
For a powdering goun
0
10
2
Eden- For 2 wigs bought at Edn: 2£ 10
burgh and l£ 5 .
3
15
0
For a wig from Bowie octr last .
3
3
0
For 6 pr gloves 7s. 6d., a pair
stokens 15s.
1
2
6
For Holland for shirts
2
8
0
For rubans, etc. 8s. .
0
8
0
For shoes l£ 10
1
10
0
For Black Cloath from Elliot .
4
9
3
S
. 76
10
9
208 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
London, January 1st, 1717. Account of my
own Cloathes. Stg.
For 27 yd White Indian quilting £ s. d.
at 4s. 6d. and 5s. 6d. . . 4 13 6
For dying my green goun 7s., my
callico and lining scowring . 0 6 0
For glazing my white lining Is.
and the green above not drawn
out 0 8 0
For 8 yd lining to the green at
5s. 6d 2 4 0
For gloves washing Is., hood
washing Is. . . .020
For 2 ounces threed and tape . 0 2 6
For If yd cambrick for a sute at
lis. pr yd . . . . 0 18 3
For a girdle Is., washing 3 hoods
18d., gloves 2s . . . 0 4 6
For 5 yd white callico at 28d. a
yd 0 11 8
For 9 pr gloves 18s. 9d., silk gloves
6s. 3d 15 0
For2|| ydlann at 4s. 6d., 10s. 6d.,
sowing 4 shifts 6s. 8d. . . 0 17 2
For Dutch Manto to be body and
slives to my black goun 6s. 3d. 0 9 0
For satine laceing Is,, pluf 6d., a
cypres hood 2s. .
For some small things 3s., pins Is.
For a pair gloves 2s. 2d., 2 pair
stokins at 7s. and 5s.
For 1| yd cloath for a peticoat
For 14 yd egin at 5s. 6d. 3 19 9
For a yd f i Ian at 1 2 6
For Musline and making
a handkerchief . 0 2 6
0 3
6
0 4
0
0 14
2
1 8
6
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 209-
[Clothing] [Sterling]
For a wire makeing and £ s. d.
starching ye head 0 4 6
5
9
3
0
13
0
0
10
0
1
0
0
0
8
0
1
17
0
0
1
0
For a floorisht hood and Apron .
For a yd Cambrick .
For a Marsyls wastcoat
For 2 pr Gotten slives 2s., a pair
green shoes and lace 6s.
For Holland for shirts at 4s.
6d. .....
For dying a pr stokins Is. .
For egine at 5s. 6d. valentians
ground and severall other
things from Mrs. Pearks this is
above inceart.
For a fan 2s. 5s., Ian at 12s. l£ 5s.
6d., alamed hood 8s.
For a pr green lacd shoes 6s., plain
oS. . . • • •
For 6 snuff handkerchieff at 28d.
pr piece ....
For 25 1 yd Green strypt Lutstring
at 10s. .....
For 5 combs 9s., sweat waters 2s.,
lace for shoes lid.
For silk gloves 6s. 3d., more for
gloves 18s, more 16s,
For 9 yd green lutstring for linin
and ane aprone
For making my scarlet peticoat
4s., 2 pr threed stokins 6s.
June 28 To Mrs. Lindsay Manto maker in
full of all accounts
For a piece satine 14| yd f broad
For a piece pertian of 10 yds
For 9 yd green lutstring 3£ 3s.
22 yd pench 3£ 4s. 6d. . . 6 7 6
For I piece pertian 1 12s. 3d.,
o
2
0
6
0
9
0
0
14
0
12
17
6
0
11
11
2
0
3
3
3
0
0
8
0
6
4
6
4
10
0
3
2
6
210 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Clothing;
[Sterling]
girdles 10s., scowring white linin
£
s.
d.
2s. 6d. .....
2
4
9
For 2 allamod hoods l£, a gass
hood 6s., rose ruban 2s. 6d.
1
8
6
For 2 pieces chints 10 a pice
scarlet Damask 5£
15
0
0
ALUg. 3d For a yellow satine night goun
2£ 8d., a pr stays 2£, opening
body 10s. ....
4
18
0
For linin from old silk shop to
this day ....
7
0
0
For Camrick frome Cicel Wray,
C/LfV/* • • • • •
4
0
0
Aug. 5
To Mrs. Lindsay manta maker
in full of all accounts to this
day .....
4
4
0
Edinr,
For some things bought by May
Menzies, Lond:
1
4
0
Sept. 3
For gloves from Livingston
kids 2, lambs 14d .
4
12
0
For severall small things at my
Rachys mariage .
S.
4
0
0 i
116
9
11
London, January 1st, 1717. Account of my
Grisies Cloath. Stg.
For a green and gold Attles . 16 0 0
For 8 yd green lutstring for lining
it at 6s. 3d. . . . 2 10 0
For 11 yd fring for a head sute at
8d 0 9 4
For gloves washing Is., Is. 6d. . 0 2 6
For a white Apron 6s. 6d. . 0 6 6
For 5 years green lutstring for a
skerf at 6s. 3d. . . . 1 11 6
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 211
[Clothing;
[Sterlin
^g]
For making the skerf by Mrs.
£
s.
d.
Gray .....
0
7
0
For a scarlet apron 7s. 6d.
0
7
6
For 27 yd Black velvet for goun
and coat at 17s.
22
19
0
For 8 3'd Black Italian Lutstring
lining .....
2
10
0
For severall small things 8s., a
girdle Is. .
0
9
0
For 18 yd white Persian for the
Caposhins dress
1
13
0
For 6 yd ruban 3s. 9d., pins Is. .
0
4
9
For 10 yd fringe at 8d.
0
6
8
For gloves 18d. 15d.
0
3
9
For 11 yd quilting for coats at
OS* OCi.* • • • • •
3
0
6
For dying the blew Damask goun
without a linin
0
7
0
For Green Ruban at 9d., 2s. 3d.,
fan 3s., a hook 6d.
0
6
6
For 22 yd green and white stript
Armozeen at 13sh.
14
6
0
For 4 snuff handkerchiefs at 28d.
0
9
4
For combs 3s., lining to a peticoat
1 o« • • • • •
0
10
0
For djdng peticoat linin 3s., 5 yd
Damity 10 .
0
13
0
For a pair buckles 3s. 9d., a visard
6d. .....
0
4
3
For small things 4s. lOd., a duson
gloves l£ 5s. ...
1
9
10
For thick Musline 9s., a Hoop l£
1
9
0
For boning a hoop 5s., a pairthreed
stokins 6s. 6d., shoes 16s.
1
7
6
To Mrs. Lindsay Manta maker in
full to this day
5
6
0
For blew ruban 4s., shoes lis., fan
18d., hat lOd.
1
6
6
212 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Clothing]
For 12| yd. Gindgum ell broad for
a goun ....
For girdles 9s., green lutstring
9s. 8d., a glas weight 5s.
For half piece china taffito 2£
17s. 6d., a girdle 2s., wires Is..
For I piece pertian to Grisies old
chinse l£ 12s. 3d. .
For black egine 5s. 6d., white egin
6s. 4d., ruban 2s. 6d.
For shoes 6s., lining hatt Is., white
Damask goun scowring 6
For ane alamad hood 10s., small
things 5s., more 2s.
For scouring wraping goun 4s. 6d.,
threed Is., laceing Is.
For a dusoneof gloves l£ 8s., shoes
14s. 6d., fans 6s. 6d.
For 4 yd crimson ruban 3s. 4d., a
piece chints 5£ . . .
For 8 yerds gingem to line the
gingem goun
For a piece gellow Damask, | a
piece Taffita ....
For covering breast wt white
tabic 5s. p jumps 10
For dressing box l£ 12s. 3d.,
lace from Mrs. Dessliger
Aug. 3 For lutstring for gouns and linins
from old silk shop
For camirick l£ 4s., gloves 6s.
Aug 5 To Mrs. Lindsay Manta maker in
full of all acctts
For Clasps ....
Sep. 3d For sundry things bought by May
Minzies ....
For sundry things to her at her
sisters mariage
[Sterling'
£ s. d.
2 10
0
] 3
8
3 0
6
1 12
3
0 14
4
0 13
0
0 17
0
0 6
6
1 19
0
5 3
4
1 0
0
7 10
0
0 15
0
4 18
9
11 0
2
1 10
0
3 0
0
0 3
0
2 13
6
7 14
0
1717] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 213
[Clothing] [Sterling]
For Gloves from Livinston kids £ s. d.
2s., La: [lambs] 14d. . . 4 12 0
For 2 pieces Indian Pertian . 5 19 0
For 2 pr shoes at 16sh. . . 1 12 0
April
11
s.
£151
2
11
ceount of money given Rachel Dundas.
For shoes ....
0
4
6
For 26 yd white Gotten satine at
2s. 9d., 12 yd white sesnet 27sh.
5
0
2
For 6 pair gloves I give her
0
12
6
To Piter Hambly for a pice of
Chints .....
6
0
0
To her .....
1
12
0
For 1 lace 2s. ...
0
2
0
To her by Captain Turnbull, etc.,
in Scotland ....
3
5
0
For a pice chints
5
0
0
To her .....
2
2
0
S. 23
8
2
London, January 1st, 1717. Account of My
Rachy's cloath.
For a cherie handkerchieff .
For washing gloves Is., Fan 9s. .
For Fans 5s. 6d. more 7s. 6d.
2s., more 9s. .
For a duson and 3 pr gloves
For a scarlet Apron 7s. pr yd old
silk shop ....
For 27 yd velvet at 17s. .
For 8 yd black Italian Lining for
it at 6s. 3d.
For 10 J yd fring for a sute at 8d.
Stg.
0
3
6
0
1
9
0
15
9
1
12
3
0
7
0
22
19
0
2
10
0
0
7
0
1
7
0
0
4
9
0
1
0
0
9
0
0
6
8
0
2
0
214 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Clothing] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For IJ yd thick Musline at 5s. . 0 6 3
For 3 yd pink ruban 2s. 6d., a
girdle Is 0 3 9
For sundry small things . . 0 10 0
For 18 yds white persian at 22d.
pr yd for her Caposhin dress at
the Maskarad . . . 1 13 0
For 12 yd white semet for the
Damask goun
For 6 yd rubans 3s. 9d., pins Is. .
For gloves washing 18d., gloves 2s.
For ane Alamod hood
For 10 yd fring
For dresing a head by Mrs. Tuer
For 24 yd Rid and silver stuff at
22s., 8 yd lining . . . 30 6 0
For 7 yerds Indian quilting at
5s. 6d 1 18 6
For dying the rid damask goun
yellow wt out linin . . 0 7 0
For scouring the pillen linin and
peticoat . . . . 0 5 0
P'or narow valentians lace at lis.
lane 12 makeing, etc. . . 5 7 0
For a girdle 6s., ane ell ruban 7s. 0 13 0
For cambrick and makeing a sute
head cloathes and Ruf . . 0 19 0
For Fans 9s., a stra hat 10s., floors
7s., Mask 2s 18 0
For green lac'd shoes 7s., for 2
snuff handkerchiefs . . 0 4 8
For combs 3s., fan 2s., hooks and
pendons 3s. 6d. . . . 0 8 6
For rid galoun 5s., rid silk 3d., green
silk stokins lis. 6d. . . 0 16 9
For lace to shoes Is., sundry small
things 4s. 10 . . . 0 4 10
1717] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 215
[Clothing]
For a gase handkerchief 2s., raffle-
ing and mounting a 3£ fan
25s
For a duson of Gloves l£ 5s., a
Hoop l£ . . . .
For 8 yd Indian chekerd linin cald
to a Best [?] goim at 2s. 7d. .
For a Riding goun .
For boning a hoop 5 rubans 4s.,
fan 18d. 3 girdles 9s.
To Mrs. Lindsay Mantua maker
in full of all accounts
For a dresing box l£ 12s. 3d., green
lutstring 9s. 8d. .
For I piece china taffita 2£ 17s. 6d,
a glas weight 5d., girdles 2s. .
For 4 girdles 12s. 6d., lace Mrs.
Waird Is. 4d., laceing 9d.
For ruban 2s. 6d., 8 yds lace Mrs.
Ward, etc. 2£ 7s. 6d.
For lining a hat Is., sco wring white
Damask goun 6 .
For gloves 6s., shoes at 16s., and
slipers 2£ 3s. ...
For shoes by Reinolds
For a cloath hat to her riding
habite ....
For a naturall black hair wige
from Boe ....
For 36 yd Holland from Mr.
Lind .....
For ane Alamad hood 10, a pair
stokins 6s. a roll 18d. .
For li yd Damity for pokets 2s.
6d., small things 5s., more 2s. .
For robings to a goun 4s. 6d.,
threed Is
For a white satine quilted coat .
Sterling
£ s. d.
1 7
0'
2 5
0
1 0
8
2 15
0
0 19
6
1 15
6
2 1
11
3 4
6
0 14
7
2 10
0
0 7
0
2 9
0
2 12
0
0 13
0
1 1
6
L2 7
6
0 17
6
0 9
6
0 5
&
2 15
0
Sterling]
£
s.
d.
1
15
0
3
7
4
0
5
0
1
3
2
0
5
4
10
0
0
2
0
0
216 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1717
[Clothing]
For a yellow pertian quilted coat
For 2 dusone 4 pr gloves at 2s. 8d.
pr D .
For a pr tickine shoes
For 2 Callico Aprons 10 3 jepsies
13s. 2d
For laceing 18d., 4 yds crimson
ruban 3s. 4d., wires 6d. .
For a piece chints 5£, another
piece 5£ got befor .
For 16 yd gingem for a goun
For a pr white stays 2£, covering
a pr on breast 5s. . . . 2 5 0
For a pr jumps yellow canves
sticht wt green 10
For satine with silver shoes from
Green ....
For 12 yd rid and white silk at
7s. for wraping goun
For 8 yd white lutstring for lining
the goun at 5s. 6d.
For 20 yd black lutstring at 6s. 3d.
for linings and aprons .
For 4d. white sesnet hoods 12s. 8d.
more lutstring old silk shop all
For lining to the old chints goun
l£ 12s. 3d
For a sute laces at 4£ from Mrs.
Devliger ....
For lace to Night cloathes, Apron,
shift, etc. ....
For 5| Cambrick
For Cambrick night cloathes and
ruffles .....
For handkerchiefs 2£ 10 .
Aug. 5 To Mrs. Lindsay mantua maker
in full of all . . . 4 9 0
0
10
0
0
15
0
4
4
0
2
4
0
3
5
0
1
9
2
1
12
3
30
9
6
16
4
0
3
9
0
4
1
6
2
10
0
I7i8] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 217
Clothing^
Sterling
For lace and cambrick, etc., from
£ s.
d.
Mers. Perks ....
11 0
0
Eden-
For 9 yd Dajaper from Rob.
burgh
Manderson ....
For sundry things bought by
0 12
0
May Minzies
4 18
5
5ep. 3d
For Linins and sowing and gloves
and sundry other things at Edn.
at her Mariage
36 10
0
For Bryds favours ^ .
3 0
0
For the Brids Garter ^
1 3
0
For the Garland that is brock over
the Brids head ^ .
1 1
6
For 25 yeards silver stuff for goun
and coat ....
41 5
0
For a green Podisoy hood and
Mantle Trimd wt Gold
12 10
0
For a Gotten Satine Night goun
to Lord Binning .
2 10
0
For 8 yd lutstring for the silver
stuff goun ....
2 12
0
For lutstring to slives and necks
of gouns ....
0 9
0
For a sute loup'd laces from Mrs.
Tempest ....
28 9
0
S. 361 12 3
1718 My Rachys childs cloathes. Stg.
Aug. 16 To Mrs. Lindsay in full . . 10 0
For scouring gouns . . . 0 12 0
For mending lace 5s., a hook Is. 0 6 0
For child Bed Linins and every
thing she wanted . . . 74 4 3
^^ovr. 19 For egine Mrs. Tempest . . 14 0
^ See p. xlv.
218 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1718:
[Clothing]
For I piece jueling for childs day
vests .....
For cleaning a goun py'd Whit-
son .....
For quilting a goun
For 2 baskets
For litle wastcoats 3s.
For egins for 3 sute litle cloathes
For 4 p. litle threed Mittons
To Mrs. Childs account coats and
froks .....
For hoUand from Lind
For 6 sute litle linins besids the
egines .....
To Mrs. Perks for egins for 3 suts
For a Bed table and chair from
Moor
For more eggine . . . 1 10 0
For 4j yd Podisoy for
a cloack . . 2 13 0
For scarlet sesnet at
3s. 6d. . . . 10 0
3 13 0
Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
16
0
0
4
0
1
10
0
0
6
0
0
3
0
5
11
0
0
2
6
4
11
6
4
19
0
4
15
0
5
15
9
For makeing the clock the lace
my own ....
For loops to the goun
For more eggine
a pair white shoes with silver .
0 4
0
0 9
0
0 11
6
0 16
0
113 3
6
Debursments in bussines 1692. Scots
Decem- To Mr. William Chiesly^ per
ber 27 receipt for Drumkairn's bussi-
William Chieslie of Cockburn, W.S.
1694] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 219
[Business Charges, etc.] [Scots]
nes and extracting ane act
against the tenant in Easton . 58 00 00
ditto 30 To Mr. William Chiesly for ex-
peding the gift of Ballancriefs
wardei . . . . 58 0 0
1693 To Broun messenger for citing of
July Tersonce . . . . 11 4 0
Sept. 30 To Nicoll Somervill agent for
William Melvill, merchant, for
ane attestation of the best
assignation granted by Banja-
min Wirsely . . . . 34 16 0
Octr. 2 To Mr. William Chiesly for in-
fefting me in Wariston's Land 21 6 0
To a consultation in the bussines
of Landrick . . . 24 0 0
Novr. 22 To Mr. Chiesly for raising a
sommonds for proveing the
tenuer of some writs relating
to Ridhall . . . . 20 0 0
Decmr. 9 To Mr. Chiesly to consult Mr.
Brody in Meldrum's affair . 11 0 0
ditto 26 To Mr. Chiesly for informations in
Landrick affair . . . 8 8 0
1694 To Mr. Chiesly for extracting
Januar 3 decriets against Lanrick,
Meldriun and Kemne, per re-
ceipt . . . . . 56 0 0
Ditto 8 To consult Lenrick bussiness . 28 10 0
24 To the decector of the Chancery
for passing of my gift of genarell
receaver ^ . . . . 46 0 0
^ A grant of ward entitled the grantee to draw the rents of an estate held
' ward ' of the Crown, the owner of which was dead, during the minority of the
heir, under burden always of the alimony of the heir, widow's terce, etc. The
tenure of ward was abolished in 1747 in consequence of the ''45.' In the
present case the grant was made for the minority of Alexander Hamilton, heir
of his father James Hamilton.
^ Salary ;^300.
220
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1694
[Business Charges, etc.]
To the servants of the abovsaid .
To the keeper and under keeper
of the great seall and purs dues
To expences at the privie seall .
Febr. 28 To Mr. Chieslys man Rob
Young .....
May 9 To him for ane execution of
arristment against Meldrums
tenets .....
July To Mr. Chieslys servants .
August 2 To Mr. William Chiesly to acount,
per receipt ....
23 To Mr. Chiesly per receipt
To Mr. Chiesly for a sommonds
of valuation of the tinds of
Mellersteans
For writting memorialls about the
poll .....
Deem. To 3 consultations with the Kings
advocat ^ 2 in Duck Gordons
business and on in the tinds of
Mellersteans
1695 To Mr. Chiesly for Meldrums
Feb^ 22 bussines, per receipt
To his men for informations
writing ....
March 11 To Sir Archibald Moor ^ he gave
out in the Duck of Gordons
bussines ....
To the sheriffe dark in Aberdien
to take infeftment in Meldrums
Land 40lib, expences sending
ther 4lib 4s. ...
Scots
£ s. d.
6
0
0
100
0
0
13
4
0
8
12
0
14
0
0
6
0
0
240
0
0
40
0
0
5
16
0
2
8
0
100 16 0
100 0 0
4 16 0
43 10 0
44 4 0
^ Sir James Stewart, whose curious actings at the time of the Revolution
earned him the sobriquet of ' Wily Jamie.'
"^ Probably Sir Archibald Muir of Thornton, afterward Provost of the city of
Edinburgh.
1697] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 221
[Business Charges, etc.] [Scots]
£ s. d.
August To Mr. Chiesly per receipt . 66 13 4
Novr. 1st To Adam Urwin . . . 72 0 0
To Mr. Chiesly to get out the
decreat about the hows . . 9 8 0
To a consultation in Duck Gordon
bussines . . . . 64 2 0
For executing a sommond . 3 4 0
To Patrick Christy at the infeft-
ment takeing . . . 2 10 00
Take out Mr. Cheslys mony.
lent first . 240 0 0
It. more per recept 40 0 0
It. more per recept 66 13 4
346 13 4
The sume of all the rest is S. 976 14 0
Debursments in bussiness, 1697. Scots
January To Sir Gilbert 1 5 guinys . . 0075 00 00
To Sir Gilberts man for writing
informations in the bussiness of
Ridhall .... 0001 09 00
^ Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto practised first as a writer in Edinburgh, acting
as agent for William Veitch, the convenanting minister, and for the Earl of
Argyll, whose escape he secured. lie took a leading part in arranging Argyll's
Rising, and was actually in arms with him, but escaped abroad. Having
obtained a pardon, he passed for the Bar in November 1688 (having failed to
pass the examination in the preceding July), was made a Baronet in 1700, and
became a judge under the title of Lord Minto in 1705. He and his wife were
evidently intimate friends of the Baillies, as much ' drink-money ' is entered as
having been left at Minto, and it was to Lady Minto that Baillie gave the com-
mission, which evidently caused some amusement at the time, and which is
referred to by Mrs. Calderwood (twenty years after his death), viz. ' to get him
a fine house at the Cross of Edinburgh with a large garden behind it, that
he might both have the pleasure of seeing the street and walking in his own
garden. ' — Coltness Collectiotis,
222 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1697
[Business Charges, etc.] [Scots]
Di. 7th To the clerks and servants for the £ s. d.
dues of a decreet of making
a r i s t e d goods forthcoming
against the tenents of Meldrum 0012 07 00
To the Signit for horning and
punding on the decritt . . 0001 16 00
To Jo: Russell for seeking out the
process for proving the tener
of writs relating to Ridhall . 0001 09 00
To writting 18 informations for
proving the tenar of said writs 0006 17 00
Ditt. 18 To Patt. Christy for doing bussi-
ness Novr. '96 . . . 0005 16 00
To consult my brother Wills
assignation .... 0036 00 00
For a messingers going for
Meldrum .... 0000 14 00
July 10 To Mr. Chiesly for expeding of
bussiness, per recept . . 0042 10 00
To Mr. Chiesly for a decritt of
valuation of the tinds of
Mellersteans . . . 0006 00 00
Novr. 10 To Sir Gilbert Elliot for the two
Taylies of my estate 3 guinies 0043 04 00
To Sir Gilberts man for writting
them 0008 14 00
To Androu Car the writers man 0001 00 00
To Mr. Crafoords man . . 0001 09 0
S. 244 5 0
Edenburg, January 1704. Publick Burdins.
Deb: to Cash. Scots
Cess.
The lands of Langshaw for
Martinmas 1703 and Candlemas
1704 79 19 4
1704] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 223
[Business Charges, etc.] [Scots]
For going in with cess by Androw £ s. d.
Lamb . . . . 0 7 0
For 3 termes cess by James Gray
for Jerriswood . . . 32 18 0
For 4 tarmes cess out of Meller-
steans preceeding the 1st of
September 1704 . . . 236 11 6
S. 349 15 10
Expenc at Law. Deb: to Cash.
Febr. To Alexander Pringle for writting 14 4 0
May 30 To bussines in Landrick pay'd
Rob: Dick in full for head
courts and all preciding this day 12 13 6
For the messangers expenc at
Langshaw in takeing infeftment 7 0 0
For a discharge to Androw Bruce 0 14 6
To Houstons brother . . 7 2 0
To Alexander Cuningham writter
for Rickertons bussines and
others as per his account given
in ..... 145 7 4
S. 197 01 4
Edenburgh, January 1704. Sundry Account.
Deb: to the Rents of Langshaw. Scots
For two monthes cess at Canilmes
1704 payd by the tenants in
Coumsly hill . . . 39 19 7
For 4 tarmes cess payd by John
Mudie in Threepwood the last
tarme being Cats 1704 . . 5 14 0
For cess at Whitsunday 1704
payd by John Moodie . . 12 0
224
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1704
[Scots^
£ s. d.
29
18
6
1
8
0
1
8
6
39
18
3
s.
99
08
10
[Business Charges, etc.]
For cess payd by Thomas Turner
for the tarme of Whitsunday
1704
To cess payd by John Moody
Febr. 26 ... .
To cess for Whitsunday 1705 payd
by John Mudie
To cess payd by Cumsly Hill
Septr. 1st 1704
To loss upon Langshaw rents
crop and year 1703, this was
of the Parks set to Thomas
Ladlay so much doun of the
rentall . . . S(. 119 13 8
For kirk stent payd by John
Mudie, Whit. 1704 . ^. 1 10 0
To James Hunter for reparing the
ivXX jv • • • • •
August For the foot mantle of Twidale ^ S^.
For answering at the head court $.
To Will : Nicolson pay'd by John
Moodie in Threepwood of few
duty for the tarmes of Whit-
sunday and Martimas 1703 S. 14 15 2
To Will: Nicolson of few duty
payd by Tho: Turner for Mose
howses, Coumsly hill and
Blainsly for the tarmes of
Whitsunday and Martimas
1703 . . . . S. 141 8 4
38 12
8
17 7
8
1 9
0
^ A similar entry occurs in the accounts of the previous year. It was pro-1
bably an assessment levied under an Act passed in 1661, whereby the commis-l
sioners of shires were relieved of the expense of providing the costly foot-mantlesj
worn by them at the Riding of Parliament, which for the future were to be paid]
for by the shires, to whom they were to be restored at the rising of Parliament.
Langshaw lay in the shire of Roxburgh or sheriffdom of Teviotdale.
I
1704] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 225
[Business Charges, etc.] [Scots]
To Will: Nicolson by Moodie in £ s. d.
Threepwood the few duty for
Whitsunday and Martinmas
1704 . . . . S. 14 15 2
To William Nicolson the few duty,
Martimas 1704 . . S. 141 8 4
To the scoolmasters sallary for
Whitsunday and Martimas
1703 payd by John Moodie in
Threepwood . . S. 0 10 0
To scoolmasters sallary by
Moody for Whitsunday and
Martimas 1704 . . S. 0 10 0
To the scoolmaster sallarie by
Ladlay, but recept brunt . S. 10 0 0
To scoolmasters sallary Wliit-
sunday and Martimas 1704 S. 10 0 0
For a milston to the milne . S[. 21 0 0
For yron work to her £4 13s.,
wright work £14 12 . S(. 19 15 0
For lime and meason work to the
milne howse £14, wright £6 ^. 20 0 0
For puting up Cumsly Hill bire
£1 18s. more £l 18 . )^. 3 16 a
For repairing Will. Marssers bire
howse . . . . Si. 3 4 0
For a workmans wages 2 days at
Thom: Turners . . S. 0 16 (>
Oct. To Mr. Willson of Steapond payd
by T. Ladlay . . S. 261 0 a
These artickles marked S^ is caried
to the 137 fol. in this book 1705.
Horsekeeping.i
To expencess in horss keeping. Scots
Jun. 1693 To James Moor stabler of ane old
acount . . . . . 87 11 0
^ N.B. — Many entries relating to this heading will be found under ' Sundries.'
P
■226
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1693
[Horsekeeping]
To Moffit, stabler per recept
Sept. 22d For shoes to horsses .
1694 To James Moor stabler
Oct. For girth 4s. 6d., mor 6s. .
1695 For caring out horss at severall
Decemr. To James Moor stabler which
pays all precidings
To Moffit stablar per recept
For shoes to horss
For hay to horses
For a bridle to the guilding
For sevarell things to the gueld
ings leg
^ This was mostly at Edn.
To expence of horses at Meller-
stane which is caried to leger
particularly by itself
Scots]
£
s.
d.
15
4
0
2
12
0
. 40
0
0
0
10
6
4
0
0
1
60
0
0
5
16
0
4
1
0
18
0
0
0
12
0
4
14
6
244 0 0
500 0 0
To expences in horskeeping 1696
January To David Denun, sadlar, per
recept .....
March 8 For a gelding ....
To Pat. Hunter for horss .
For horss carrig to Edinburgh .
For 2 horses to Polwart and shoes
to the gray hors .
For bridle to the hors
For girding ....
. 1697 For a comb, spung, brush, shiers
August 20 to the horss
To take horses out of toun .
To gress to the horss at the Dean
46 0
0
266 13
4
5 10
0
1 12
0
9 4
0
0 15
0
0 7
0
2 2
6
1 0
0
10 4
0
lyoS]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
227
[Horsekeeping]
Decmr. To Mr. Moor, stabler
Janr. 1 To Mr. Moor stabler in full of
1698 acounts preciding this day
For things bought for the horss at
Mellerstean as yron and bind-
ings, etc., go.
[Scots]
£ s. d.
64 0 0
24 0 0
4 10
S. 105 8 10
Scots
0
14 6
4
11 0
0
9 0
0
12 0
14 0
0 12 0
Mellerstains, Janr. 1708. Horses expence.
Deb: to Cash.
For feading at Ginelkirk .
For feeding at Ginelkirk £l 6, and
dwO O • • • • •
For feeding by the road 9s.
For drogs to them
Dec: For 4 coch mares a night at
Greenlaw ....
For cleaks to the grate cart traces
makeing them
To Patrick Hunter in full for
stabling this year
For nets fiet oyls
For munting the old chariot
For a crem and plate to a sadle
and stuffing . . . .
For mending a clogbag sadle
For a strip lather and strip yron
For a chean bitt and bosses
For a tie to a side sadle .
For paneling 2 cart sadles one 14s.
one £l 4s. .
For a bridle ....
For a horse comb and a brush to
Tarn Youll . . . . 16 0
39 0
0
2 10
0
35 0
0
0 12
0
1 0
0
0 14
0
0 18
0
1 0
0
1 18
0
0 14
0
228
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1708
Horsekeeping"
'Scots]
£
s.
d.
For 2 tathers to the cart horse .
0
12
0
For a cart sadle
2
18
0
For 2 new collers to the horse
1
6
0
For 2 pair cart fiets great tows
3
4
0
For lamp bleck for the coach
0
3
0
For 3 bridles and bitts at 20s. .
3
0
0
For a pair strips and yrons
1
2
0
For a mane comb
0
6
0
For a bridle and curple
2
2
0
For 11 ells girding
1
2
0
For 6 pair buckles
0
12
0
For mending a side sadle .
1
4
0
For a sadle mending
0
9
0
For 6 ells girdin 12s. 2 pair
buckles 4s. Ch: Or .
0
16
0
For yron for shoes at Mellerstains
this year ....
25
0
0
For shoeing horse by Pate Newton
from 19 Sep. 1707 till Janr. 1st
1709
20
2
0
S.
156
12
6
Meller[staine], Janr. 1709. Expence of Coach
and Horses. Deb: to Cash. Scots
For oyl to the coach . . 14 0
For oyl to horse legs . . 0 19 0
For horse shoes . . . 0 14 0
For expence of horses to George
Baillie 4 10 0
For 3 ell girthin . . . 0 6 0
For a ps of 24 ells girthin from
John Muckle . . . 14 0
June 29 To Patrick Hunter in full of all
accounts . . . . 9 0 0
I7I0]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
229
"Horsekeeping]
July 30 To Barty Gibsone for 2 coach
mares 13 nights and helping the
coach .....
For mending harnes .
For glas to the chariot from Mr.
Burtone ....
For more glases for the chariot
For shoeing horse and mending
sadles ....
For the white mares expence to
Cesnock ....
For horses expence at Kelso, etc.
For horse expence at Kelso in full
July 17th For 1 stone 14 ounces yron for
shoes £1 12s. per stone .
Aug. 26 For 22 tb. yron at £l 12 per stone
Decmr. 12 For 3 stone 4 tb. 3 ounces yrone
at £1 12s. per stone
For shoeing horses by Pat.
Newton £18
"Scots'
£
s.
d.
21
0
0
1
10
0
3
4
0
3
17
0
1
4
0
3
0
0
10
0
0
2
14
6
1
13
6
2
4
0
5
4
0
18
0
0
S. 91
8
0
Expence of coch and horses 1710.
For the coch mares at Ginelkirk
with Tam Youll
For gat same to the mares
For horse sezers [scissors]
For lamp bleck to the harnes
For a pint of oyl to the harnes
Ap. 17 For 1 ston 1 tb. yron for shoes
For lamp bleck 3d.
For mending the chariot wheals
For grase to the powny at Edin
burgh 6d. per night
Stg.
0
2 0
0
0 5
0
0 2
0
0 3
0
1 6
0
2 10
0 6 0
0 2 6
230 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1710
[Horsekeeping]
July 6 To Tam of yron for shoes 1 ston
7 tb. is 3s. lOd. .
For tethers to the horses
For lamp bleck 7d.|
To Bartie Gibson ane account of
stabling ....
To Pate Hunter ane account of
stabling ....
For bringing the mare and foil
from Cesnock
Novr. 1 For 1 ston 1 tb. 5 ounces yron to
Tam Youll 2s. 9d.
For a pair safe braces to the coach
For a pad ....
For a clogbage sadle, and furnitur
For ane account of horse expence
pay'd T. Y
For oyl to the coach
For caring out horses 2s.
For a pair hulsters to the clogbage
SHQIc • • • • •
For expence of horses on the road
To Pat: Hunter stabler in full of
all preceeding 4 Decmr.
To sundry accounts laid out by
George Mathy at Kelso,
C^ VX/ • • • • • •
For glas to the chariot by Barton
For horse at Ginelkerk when we
went to toun pay'd Shirrifs
account sometime after
For expence of horses at Kelso .
For shoeing horse, by Pat. Newton
from 1 Janr. 1710 till 6 Novr.
1710 £1 4s. 6d. .
For noult feet oyl
For oyl 2d.^, tar 8d.
For yron got by Tam Youll
Sterling
£ s. d.
0 3 10
0 3 6
0 0 7i
1 0
0
0 17
3 i
0 5
0 j
0 2
2 3
0 4
0 18
n
0 11
0 5
0 2
: 1
0 3
0 3
* 1
0 18
" 1
0 6
0 13
1
0 7
0 4
'1
1 4
0 5
0 00
0 2
n
i7ii]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
231
[Horsekeeping]
For 2 broad white bridles with bits
14d. a pair, come and brush 27d.
For 8 fathom 9 threed tows 13d.|,
6 pair girth buckles 9d.
For a broad white bridle 14d.
To William Miller garner in the
Abay compleat payment of
Bartholamew Gibsons account
for stabline from 31 Janr. 1710
till 1 Decmr. 1710
To Clark in Melrose for head
courts ....
"Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
3
5
0
1
lOi
0
1
2
11 4 8
0 2 4
S. 23 14
irlO
Expence of Horses and Coach 1711, Stg.
Janr. 19 For 3 bolls oates from the
Tenants of the Mains to the
Horses at lis. 8d. pr boll . 1 15 0
feb. 28 For Horse upon the road 4s. Id.,
more 2s. . . . . 0 6 1
For horse at Ginelkirk . . 0 3 0
For stabline at Pat Hunters to
this day . . . . 0 10 0
For lintsead oyl to the Horse . 0 0 6
For oates to the Horse
at lis. 8d. from 3
Sepr. 1710 till Ap. 12 £ ,
1711 .
more
For cart Horse
going to toun 0
For 6 bolls light
oats at 5s. pr
boll . . 6
30B If 17 10
2 3 1 10
d.
0
4
2 0 4 8
0 1 10 0
20 15 O
232
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1711
[Horsekeeping]
For oats more
to the Horse 3
which is sett doun
above sum of all
is . . .42
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
0
For Bear to the Horse at 15s. pr
Boll . . . . If .
For Bear to the Horses 1 .
For shoeing Horses payd John
Flint from Novr. 18 1710 till
Aprill 18 1711 . . .
"May 29 For 19 lb. 7 ounes yron from the
Marchant to Tam youll 3s. 3d.
For a chapine oyl 9d.
Sepr. 21 For 2 Colts gelding the ordirier
price is a shillin I gave .
For gras to Horse at Edn .
To a Ferrier for the young coch
mare .....
For a bridle Is. payd Trotter
sadlers account at Kelso 15
For cutting down the Hay in
Jerriswood Park .
For cutting doun Coltcrooks
Meadow ....
For horses at Edn. .
For poling sisers 5d. 9 fathom
9 threed tows 15d. strip lethers
16d. .....
For a fine bridle 26d. another 18d.
For 14 Bolls oates at lOsh. from
12 Ap. till 1st Sepm.
For 1 boll 1 fou peas at 15s. from
Apl. 12 till Sepm. 1 .
To William Miller Gardner in the
Abay full payment of Barthola-
mew Gibson stablers account
0
8
0
0
3
0
0
5
6
0
3
3
0
0
9
0
4
0
0
2
6
0
2
6
0
16
0
3
0
0
0
15
0
0
2
6
0
3
0
0
3
8
7
0
0
0
18
0
I7I2] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 233
[Horsekeeping] [Sterling]
from 1 July 1711 till 21st Novr. £ s. d.
1711 8s. 8d. . . . 0 8 8
To Pate Hunter stabler till 18
August 1711 . . . 3 6 8
To Pate Newton for shoeing 6 .
horse from Mart. 1710 till
Martemas'1711 1£ 10s., mending
the chariot 2s. 8d., rumping 2
horse Is. . . . . 1 13 8
To James Hunter wright for the
chariot mending . . . 0 5 0
For yron to the coach and Tarr
8s. 6d. from Liedhouse . . 0 8 6
For dresing a boar skine Is! lOd.
more .....
For 20 Rucks Hay at 10s. prUuck
For Grass to 14 horses
To timber to the coach wheels
l£ 14s. 4d. yron l£ 5s. 4d.
making them l£ 8s. 4d., shoeing
them l£, collering 5s. 4d., Tarr
0
1
10
10
0
0
14
0
0
S. £73 10 11
Expence of Coch and Horses 1712. Stg.
Coch etc. Horses Corn and Stra
For oyl to the coch .040
For a comb and brush 0 2 3
For hemp sead . 0 16
For oats to the Horses
from the 1st Septmr
1711 till the 22 May
1712 at lOsh. pr boll
234
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Horsekeeping]
[1712:
[Coch
b: f.
38 4 1
For strangers
horses . 2 0
May 23 For horses put
in the stable
chist this day 1 3 .
This stra
was 1711
crop and
spent last
For Peas Straw at
lOd. . 30st
For oat stra at
8d. .
For bear strat
at 6d.
100
32
year but To a boll Lang-
was forgot shaw light
to be in- oats 4s. 2d. . 4
cert till For bear at 4sh. 8d.
the acct 2 fouls
was clos'd For helping the chariot
by Hunter 8 days .
For mending horse
furniture
For 100 nails to the
coach .
To the Ferrier for the
Gray Mare .
For oyl to the coach
For mending sadles by
Trotter
[Sterling]
Horses Corn and Stra]
£ s. d.
0 5 0
0 4 0
0 10
0 16
0 4 0
21 4 0
42
2
For light oats
to the horse
5s. • 4
0
10 0
For pease at
15s. . 0
2
0 0 6
15 0
3 6 8
0 16 0
0 16 8
0 4 8
0 2 0
I7I2] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 235
[Horsekeeping"
[Sterling
[Coch
etc.
Horses Corn and Stra]
'
£ s. d.
For oyle to Gray Mare
0 16
For bran and Drogs
when colded .
0 5 0
For 12 ells Girthing at
2d. very broad
0
2
0
For 2 pair strip lathers
r»
2s. 3d., buckles 18d.
0
3
9
■:
For shoe to a horse .
0
0
4.
I
For Tarr to the coach
6d., oyl 2s., bleck
3d. .
0
2
9
For expenc on the
road to Edn .
0 2 0
For mending the coach
and 2 pair shekles,
the shekles with nails
15d. a pair .
0
3
6
For expences on the
road
0 3 0
To a pyper at Red-
breas for the horse
0 10
Deem. 10 To Patrick Hunter in
full of all Accounts
for this year
2 12 0
For two trees for polls
0
2
0
For mending of sadles
at Kelso, etc.
0
5
3
For mending sadles by
Mrs. Troter
0
1
0
For the Hay of Jerris-
wood Park last year
being still untoucht
6 0 0
For the Hay of Colt-
crooks .
10 0 0
For stra which comes
to 7£ 5 of crop 1712
7 5 0
236
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1709
[Horsekeeping]
To Pat Newton for
shoeing horse from
the last March 1712
till last March 1713
[Sterling]
[Coch Horses Corn and Stra]
£ s. d.
2 0 0
£4 2 4 35 12 0
[1709]
Estate Management.^
The expence of repairing tenants houses.
Deb: to Cash. [Scots]
March 22 For meason and wright work in
Langshaw Milne allowed to
' '^ Thomas Ladly this day . . 44 7 8
For naills to sclate the house, etc.,
of Langshaw . . . 6 10
June 8 For a milne stone to Langshaw
Milne bought by James Deas . 20 12 0
For doors to Moss houses . . 2 8 0
For a nather milston from Green-
law to Langshaw.
For sclateing the house of Lang-
shaw by Pat: Thomsone . 30 0 0
To Jamie Blakie 2 days at Lang-
shaw cutting timber . . 14 0
To Mellerstains workmen at
Langshaw Dam . . . 5 15 0
For helping to put up Langshaw
Park dicks . . . . 28 0 0
For repairein the stone dicks at
Langshaw . . . . 16 0 0
For 6 loads lime for Langshaw
House . . . . 1 16
For divits to Langshaw House . 3 6
For thicking LangshaW stables . 4 10
0
8
0
^N.B. — Many entries relating to this heading will be found under ' Sundries.
1709] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 237
[Estate Management]
To a milne wright for repaireing
Langshaw Milne .
To said milne wright Munga Dick
half a boll meall .
To Munga Park measone for re-
paireing Langshaw IMilne
For yrone £5 lOsh., casting divits
to Langshaw Milne £5 12s.
For nails to the milne by John
Boe and other yron work
For other expences at Langshaw
Miln by Ja: Ainsly
For reparations in Over Langshaw
and Mose Houses .
For glazing Langshaw Houss
For lime to Langshaw House
For casting divots to Langshaw
Milne
For divits leading and other work
at Langshaw House
For pan cratch a boll £l 14, Tam
Youlls expence a night with a
horss going to the Pans for it,
he haveing corn along with him
6sh. 4d. and custome
For pan cratch to the Tour head
For 4 days bringing the cratch at
5s
For drawing thack to the thicker
For helpnig the pigion house at
Jerriswood ....
For a furlite to Langshaw Milne
Scots
£ s. d.
42 0 0
9 0
0
48 0
0
11 2
0
7 2
0
4 10
41 18
13 0
2 0
8
0
0
7 0
0
11 0
0
2
0
4
1
16
0
1
0
0
0
10
0
1
10
0
2
0
0
S. 369 9 4
238
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1710
0 5 0
0 2 0
0 10 0
Ormstons
[Estate Management]
Expence of repairing Tenants Houses,
May 15 For repairing Tarn
Williamsons house
and the smithes T:
Hop
' For 4 days thicking of
these houses by
Mowit .
For building the
smidy belonging to
John Flint by Tarn
H.
For divits to Jamie
house when he entred to it
For repairing Coltcrooks park
dick by Kerncorse
For 4000 divits for Ormston and
Thomsons houses .
For stinging the barn 9 J day
For 56 threve bear stra for sting-
ing the barn at 4d. per threve
1709 crop ....
To Hunter for 2 cuples in the
smithes house and two in Tam
Williamsons house and timering
them and helping the nurses
house . . . .
For service at the smidy 11 days
more at it and T: W: 19
For 5000 divits for Tam William-
sons house ....
For building the kitchen payd
Munga Dick 3 15 2
To Mungae for the park gate
makeing ....
For the nurses house repairing .
For John Brouns house, for 1709
repairing ....
[Sterling]
1710.
£ s. d.
0 17 0
0 16
0 9 8
0 4 0
0 4 9
0 18 8
0 6
8
0 12
6
0 5
0
3 05
2
0 2
0
0 6
li
0 11 1*
171 1] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 239
[Estate Management] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For repairing Langshaw Dicks . 0 15 6
For repaireing Langshaw Milne
houses which compleats them at
James Ainslys entry payd to
( Munga Dick . . . . 2 0 0
For repaireing Mose Houses payd
the said Munga Dick in pairt
0 4s. 5^ . . . . 0 4 5^-%
For repairing Alexander Pringles
houses in Langshaw . . 0 7 3
For divits casting to Langshaw
Milne house at 12d. per thou-
sand .....
For lime to the slouse of the milne
For nails and wooud bands to the
Milne .....
To Munga Dick in full of Mose-
houses reparations
For mending Langshaw Miln
whiel and traugh
For 4000 divits to malt barn, etc.
For repairing Coumsly Hill and
Over Langshaw payd Munga
Dick the timber all cutt on the
ground . . . . 11 4 0
For 3400 divits to Coumsly Hill,
and 2400 to Over Langshaw
5000 to Langshaw office houses 3 5 0
1
0
0
0
1
6
0
2
8
0
12
lOi ]
1
7
6
0
4
0
29 8 lOj^^
Reparations of Langshaw Barrony 1711.
[Sterling]
For repairing Langshaw Park
Dicks when Thomas Turner
entred to them Mart. 1710 . 5 10 0
240
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[i7ir
[Estate Management]
Repairing Houses 1711.
For helping the walls of Mains
Houses by Imry .
May 29 For bilding up the Stable and
coachhouse by John Wilson
For three shovels
For cloding Jerviswood Park 5sh.
6d.
For building Jerviswood Park
door . . . . .
For 17^ days work at Cochhouse
and Stable by John Wilson at
lOd. a day without meet
For pan crach to the tour head
2s. 2d. pr boll, cariage 2s. 6d. .
For Nails ....
For building the Kitchen payd
Mungo Dick 2 15 2 .
For 53 days work of 5d. men
about the houses this year
For 114 5d. days at the Kitchen
2 7 6
For work about the House and
for dails, etc.
For cariing home the Dails the
100 dails the rest our own
horses . . . . .
For building the Kit-
chen by Imry in full
of his . . .18 0
For building the
Kitchen by John
Young . . .14 8
For work about the House by
Hunter 33 days lOd. pr day .
For 468 foot pavement at 2d. pr
foot in kitchen and trance
[Sterling]
£
s.
d.
0
5
0
0
6
0
0
3
6
0 1 a
0 14
2
0 4
8
0 10
6
2 15
2
1 1
3
2 7
6
25 0
0
0 13
4
2 12 8
0 17 6
3 18 0
i
I7I2]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
241
[Estate Management]
For 45 days work at the quarie for
the pavement
For helping Caltcrooks park Dicks
by Tam Hope 5| .
For Nails from Liedhouse Is. 6,
yron for sundry uses 16sh.
For inclosing the Thack Meadow
to the Tenants in Mellerstaine
Mains at 8d. pr Rood
For inclosing the Bogg in Meller-
staine Mains at 8d. pr Rood
"Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
18
1
0
5
6
0
17
6
7
3
4
12
0
0
s.
62
14
8
Expence of Repairing Tenants Houses 1712.
March 24 For puting a band
about Langshaw
Miston 1
For building Malt Barn
at 15sh. pr Rood .
For 2 days by Hunter
at Tho Willisons
House
For 5 days at Hall
Houses
July 3 To James Hunter for
John Humes House
cuples 5
For George Dodses
chimny and win-
dows 4 days .
Millstone.
Sterline Money
Barony of
Langshaw.
0 2 1
0 5 0
0 3 4
0 12 6
0 18
Q
242 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1712
[Estate Management] [Sterling]
For Timber paydJohn £ s. d.
Gibson for Fanns
Scooll . , 0 11 8
For bands to the spinle
and armes Lang-
shaw Milne . . 0 3 8
For John Boes work
at the Spinle and
armes . . 0 2 6
To Ammers Wright
for work 4 days
there ... 0 3 10
For timber to the
Garners house and
George Dodses .15 8
For Meason and
wright work at
Garners house by
MungaDick atl2ds.
a day lad 8ds. . 2 13 8
For work by Munga
Dick at making a
chimny to Dodses
House . . .010
For puting up Coum-
slyhill barn, etc. . 15 4
For Hillandmans Ber-
ing Dick 12 days .050
For more timber from
Park for Garners
House . . .19 0
For 4 doors crooks and
bands to Coumsly-
hill ... 0 13 4
£6 17 9 3 12
iyi2] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 243
[Sterling]
Estate Management"
For mending old
Ditch Dick in Colt-
£
s.
d.
crooks .
0
0
10
For the Dick and
Ditch at 8s. pr
Rood in Coltcrooks
0
10
0
For helping Coltcrooks
Ditch Dick 10 days
0
4
2
For 10 thousand
Divits for Hall
House
0
10
0
For 6 days work at
Hall House 5d. men
0
2
6
For 3000 divits to
Fanns Scooll
0
3
0
For for Coltcrooks
park to Munga Dick
0
3
8
S.
£1
14
2
Expence of Repairing Mellerstaine Tour and
offices Houses 1712.
For hair to plaster the Kitchin at [Sterling]
9d. a stone . . . . 0 6 6
For Nails 7s., more 4s. 6 . . 0 11 6
May 13 For 400 ^vindows at 2d.|, 200
doors at 5d., 200 planshers at
8d. p hunder . . . 0 3 0
For Nails 4s. 4d., 1000 windows,
200 doors, 200 planshers . 0 8 7
For 45, 5d. days at the quarie for
payment to the Kitchin, etc. . 0 18 9
For flooring the Milk House, etc.
by Thomson . . . 0 10 0
22 For 13 days Meason work about
the House by David Imry . 0 17 0
244 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1712
[Estate Management] [Sterling]
For 65 days work of 5d. men £ s. d.
about the House, etc. . . 12 1
For 24 days 5d. men at the stone
quarie . . . . . 0 10 0
For work about the dicks by
John Clark 25 days at 5d. . 0 8 9
June 24 For biging the Collhouse 9 days,
other work 3 1 days by Tam Hope 0 12 6
For building the house of office by
Tho Hope 5 days . . 0 5 0
For nin score Dails from Eymouth
and Berwick to the house only
110 of them at lid. . . 5 0 10
For bringing home two carts full
Daills from Berwick . . 0 13 8
Ditt 16 To James Miller Glazier 2£ to
account in full of all 2£ Is. 8 . 4 1 8
For Nails from Liedhouse 2s. 8d.,
for yron from him 3s. . . 0 5 8
For lead 2lb. 4d., lime lis. 8d.,
lime 5s. . . . . 0 17 0
For Nails 5s. 4d., 3s. 5d., 4s., Is.
8d., and more 5s. 7d. . . 10 0
For 60 Dails from Aymouth
brining home . . . 0 6 3
To William Moor lis. 6d. . . 0 16
To John Smith for makeing and
mending smith work 2£ . 2 0 0
Sep. 2 For wright work about the house
by James Blakie 4£ . . 4 0 0
For plastering l£, more wright
work by James Blakie 2£ 7s. . 3 7 0
To James Hunter for sawing
Dails lOd. a day 6 days . 0 5 0
For work about house and offices
houses by the 5ds. men, etc. . 4 14 8
S. £33 7 4
1713] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 245
Expence of Repairing Tenants Houses 1713.
Mellerstanes Langshaw
For mending Lang-
shaw Milne Arms . 0 2 1
For Nails to the park
gate ... 003
0 4 9
For cuting down colt-
crooks Hay
0
17
0
For 5d. men at Colt-
crooks park .
0
18
6
For hay rakes 6
0
1
4
For suples to the barn
0
1
3
.
1
18
1
June To Andrew Lambs
expences at fairs .
0
1
0
Fuly 17 To his expence
0
1
4
To his expences Is. 2. 0 1 2
For 2600 divits to 0 2 4
Fanns House 23 6d. a
days work by Jamie
Paterson that has it
0 2 9 0 2 9
To Munga Dick for
work at Fanns house 0 2 0
£0 3 6
Expence of Repairing Mellerstean Tour and
office Houses 1713. [Sterling]
For 8 sto. whitening from Grive
in Dunce at 8ds. p stn.
June 18 For Nails . . . .064
For Lead to door crooks . . 0 18
\ ■
246
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1713
[Estate Management]
For a mutchkin lientsead oyl
16ds. 2d., white lead 8ds.
For a Muchken Lintsead oyl 15ds.
For a botle to hold it 2ds. 3^
For 8 st. whitening Grive in Dune
at Sds. pr ston
For a chopine lintsead oyl 14ds.,
culours for dyill lOds.
For 20 1 days stinging the house
Sds. and meat
For 100 threve bear stra at Sds.
for stinging the house
To Pat Newton for smith work
till Lambes 1713 .
To Mean Meason for work about
the house ....
For 5| road meason work in the
garden dick upon the North
side by Robert Mean at lis. Sds.
For work by 5d. men about the
House and Dicks till the IS day
July 1713 ....
For 5d. men at back close till 18
July .....
For 12 yron snakes for windows
at Dunce ....
For pan cratch 2s. 6d., cariing it
2s. 6d., paynting tour head 2s.
For a wainfull Dails bringing
from Berwick
For a rake lime 4s. 2ds.
For 8 trees and 60 dails from
Edmiston in Berwick
For smith work about the house
by Hardy ....
For more smith work at Gordon
5s., more Is. 2d., more Sd.
For thicking the kitchin 2s. 6d. .
[Sterling
£
s.
d.
0
2
0
0
1
3
0
0
0 6
^12
0
5
4
0
2
0
0
13
S
1
5
0
1
0
0
0
6
0
3 4 2
0
17
0
0
9
0
0
6
0
0
7
0
0
6
10
0
4
2
3
15
6
0
14
0
0
6
10
0
2
6
1714] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 247
[Estate Management]
For 50 Dails at Is., 60 at 9ds. from
Will. Robertson in Aymouth .
For 4 lb. white leed a chapine lint-
sead oyl 2s. 7ds. .
For a tree from Park 5 Nails 3s. .
For wright work by James Blackie
Sterling'
£ s. d.
4
15
0
0
2
r
0
8
0
3
9
0
£23
11
n 6
"12
Repairing Mellerstaine Tour and office Houses 1714.
[Sterling]
Ap. 14 For yron from James Liedhouse
last year haveing cleard all
accounts with him till this day 12 0
For lime lis. last year . . 0 11 0
For 7 loads lime at 6ds., 3s. 6d.,
An^ expences 9ds. to new house 0 4 8.
For stones to soil the big oven
and building up the mouths of
Both with new hewen ston and
stons for their mouthes and the
workmenship with their meat
3 of them 3 days Sanders Mean
and his sons a grot to the lads . 10 4
Ap. 27 To James Pringle at founding the
House 4d., Blakie at Aymouth
2s 0 2 4
To James Pringle for building the
back office houses 12d. pr day 3 10
May 24 To Jamie hunter for work about
the house last year . . 0 9 Q
For Nails to the new house 9s.
Nails 7s. 6d.,. more 5s. . . 116
For 3 thousand Divits to the new
House . . . . .030^
For 4 days barrowmen Is, 8d. A.
Hardy . . . . . 0 18-
248 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1714
[Estate Management] [Sterling]
For thicking the house 2s. 8d., 2 £ s. d.
shuffels 3s. 2d. . . . 0 5 10
For bring home three wanefuUs of
dails and trees to the house . 10 3
For glazing the new house 100
ches losens 36 foot wire losens
at 3d. and 4d.
For payment and laying the litle
close by Alex'' Mean
For days work about the house by
him . . . .
For expence of the cart horse
going to Coldstream
For mending the glass windows
from Aug. 18, 1713 till July 12
For Nails at severall times 17s. 2d.,
X o» • • • • •
For 265 ells Casow at the well back
closes at 2d. pr ell without meat
For 5d. men 69 days at the offices
houses in back close
Sept. 6 For leveling and leeding stons to
the back closes 86 days .
For 8 days Meason work about the
house .....
For 100 dais brought home in two
wains . . .
For 4 trees from George Dods
To Pate Newton for smith work
about the house and workmens
shuvels and house
Sept. 11 To 5ds. men 65 days at back wind
and sowing dails 6 of them
which clears of all the 3 work-
men to this day also 18 days
' ' work by John Shirra 83 in all . 1 14 7
Nov. 19 To 5ds. men for work at Dicks
houses, etc. . . . . 2 18
2
0
0
2
7
0
0
5
0
0
2
0
1
3
0
0
18
2
2
3
4
1
8
9
1
15
10
0
8
0
0
13
6
0
5
0
0
13
6
j.yi4] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 249
[Estate Management] [Sterling]
For Lime Is. 2d., 3s., glazing in £ s. d.
full to Miller by R. T. Is. 8d. . 0 5 10
For bands, locks, and sneoks to the
offices houses by Hara/ Smith
in Gordon Is. 4d., more 2£ 5s. 2 6 4
To John Mowit for stinging the
house and dick . . . 17 6
For 20 dails from James Blakie
l£, cariing 3s., 4d. . . . 13 4
;Nov. 24 To Jamie Blakie cleard all ac-
counts and payd . . . 8 8 0
For thicking the house by Young
8 days 0 8 0
For 1 St. 11 lb. yron for quarie
work, looms mending . . 0 4 6
For more yron 4s. 8d„ 2 shuvels
3s. 2d. .
•
0 7 10
For 34 lb. lead 5s. 9d.
•
0 5 9
£41 8 7
, c
Mellerstaine, Janry 1714. Repairing
Tenants Houses.
Mellerstaine. Langshaw.
To Amers Milne wright
Sterling'
for Langshaw Mile
Wheel .
5 19 4
To Munga Dick for
over Langshaw barn
10 days 8ds.
0 6 8
To Munga Dick 2 days
building up the
cross and tronn
0
2
0
To a Meason to finish
out the Malt Kill
and barn
1
0
0
To Ainsly for over-
langshaw Houses .
0 6 0
250 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1714
[Estate Management] [Sterling]
To John Gray for £ s. d.
doors at Mosehouses 0 5 0
For a door to Coumsly
hill and 2 days work 0 4 8
For casting Divits to
the Malt barn 12ds.
p 1000 . . .050
For 2 suples 3d. more
2 suples 2j^d.
For flals and hudins
to Tam Bell . .011
For tar to the sheep
last year in the toun 0 2 4
To Hope Meason 2
days at Jerriswood
Park dick . .020
To 5d. men at Jerris-
wood park dicks and
._. ..„,__„ other dicks . .218
To 5d. men at Colt-
crooks park dick 9
days . . .039
Septm. 6 For 5d. men at the
Hay 27 days being
9 day each . . 0 11 3
For 5d. men at the
park dicks . .071
For working at the
Hay by 5d. men etc. 0 10 0
For cuting the Hay in
nm-sary ground .080
For 2 days at Nurses
house . . .010
£5 15 2 7 13
1709] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 251
Expense of Garden.^
Mellerstaines, Janr. 1709. Expence of the
Gardine. Deb: to Cash. [Scots]
For 2 spads £6, a how £l 16s. . 7 16 0
For men to work with the garner
at 5sh. per day . . . 3 10 0
For 3 rackes, a howe, a pairin
yron, a stalk for a Hne threed,
and a pair of fork grains . 2 2 0
For plants at 4s. per 100 . . 2 8 0
To Samuill Robsone in Brigend
for gardine seeds . . . 19 11 0
For spinage sead 4 ounces at
Edinburgh . . . . 0 11 0
For 51 day by Tarn Youll in the
gardine at 5d. [stg.] . . 12 15 0
Decmr. 12 For workmen at the gardine
preceeding this date
For workmen at the gardine
For 34 foot glass for hote beds .
29 0
0
2 10
0
7 12
0
S. 87 15 0
Expence of the gardine 1710. [Sterling]
For a tb. peas . . . . 0 13
Ap. 22d For workmen at 5d. a day, delving 0 15 0
To Tam Youll at the boulling
green 15| days . . . 0 6 5|
To White in Fans and Black in
Mellersteans at the boulingreen 0 9 2
For plants 3s. 6d., peas Is. 3d. . 0 4 9
For gardine seads from Brigend
Garner . . . . 17 0
^ Many entries relating to this heading will be found under ' Sundries.'
252
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Expense of Garden]
For 3 shuffels
For 200 days work at the
Boullingreen at 5d. per day
[1710
Sterling'
£ s. d.
0 3 6
4
3 4
7
10 5^^
Expense of the Gardine 1711
For Spades 2 at 4sh. 6d., shaffels
4 at Is. 2d.
For Gardine seads
For pursly sead
For a watering cann c. o. .
For 106 5d. days at the Bowlin
green . . . .
s [Sterhng'
0
13
8
1
5
6
0
1
4
0
4
4
2
4
2
S. £4
9
0
Expence of the Gardine 1712.
For a lb. of white pease
For men to work the ground at
5d. p day ....
For a lb. firr sead
For inclosing the Nursary 80 5d.
days .....
For 78 5d. days trinching and
setting trees and in gerdine
For 19 days at Jerriswood
Nursary more
For 38 days ditehen out the
Nursary Dicks
For 25 days more at setting out
the trees ....
0
0
6
0
15
0
0
12
0
1
13
4
1
12
6
0
8
0
0
15
10
0
10
5
I7I3]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
253
I
[Expense of Garden]
For young Trees bought by John
Hope which was a perfit cheat
For Elm sead from Hundalie
For 2 shuffels 2s. .
For a Hne threed 7d.
For gardine seads by John Hope
from Samuell Robsone .
For a syth ....
For a spade 3s. 8 a shovell 18d.
another shovell 14d.
For a spade 4s. 2ds. .
For 5ds. men at the Green 80
days .....
For 5d. men at the Gardine 20
days .....
Sterling
£
s.
d.
2
10
0
0
2
6
0
2
0
0
0
7
1
16
8
0
2
0
0
6
4
0
4
6
1
13
8
0
8
4
S. £13 14 2
1713
Expence of the Gardine
Sterling
For a spade Berwick 3s. 6d.
0
3
6
For floors 2s., 2 shovles c. 0. 3s. .
0
5
0
For a long syth 2s. 2d., sharpening
stons 4ds. a pice .
0
3
6
For a spade c. 0. 4s., 3 lb. clover
sead 2s. 3d. ....
0
2
3
For a lb. lime sead 5s. 6d. .
0
5
6
For 5ds. men and others at the
Boulling green and banks
5
12
6
For 5d. men at the North wall till
18 July ....
0
14
0
For 5ds. men at Gardine 4s. 6d.
at for close l£, gravell 4 .
1
5
6
For 5ds. men at the Gardine
0
0
10
For 34 ewe trees from William
Miller .....
5
0
0
254
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1713
Expense of Garden"
Sterling"
For a roling ston from Kimmer-
£ s. d.
gham .....
12 6
For Gardin seads and tree seads
Samuell Robson
4 0 0
For John Humes expences 2s. 8d.,
more Is. ... .
0 3 8
For trees from Earlston .
1 19 0
£21 0 9
Elms 15s.L 100 geans 2d.
•2i
Sep. 6
For 200 firs 12s. pr 100 .
For 5d. mens work in the Gardine
and at planting 192 days for a
years time . . . .
Sep, 9 For smith work by Pat Newton
till this day ....
Sterling
1
16
0
0
2
6
0
8
0
Expence of the Gardine and Planting 1714.
For trees from Jedbrugh .
To Sr Pat. Scots Garner for geting
the Allers ....
March For 2 spades at Edn.
For John Humes expences going
about seeds, trees, etc. .
For a spade from my father
4s. .....
For a syth 2s. another syth and
2 sharping stons 3s.
For Gardine seeds this year
For 2800 thorns 10s. pr 1000 .
For Anemonys 4d. Ranunculus 3d.
Junquils Id. Tulips 2d. .
For 40 plains Id. pr pice, 1000
0 4 8
0 4 0
0
5
0
13
4
8
0
5
0
8
4
4
0
4
0
0
0
7
0
1694] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 255
[Expense of Garden] [Sterling]
£ s. d.
For Akorns 2s., Mrs. Mean Is. . 0 3 0
For lines Is. . . . . 0 10
14 9 10
Expence of the Gardine and Planting 1718.
For chestons and Walnuts
For 300 horse chestons
For a sneding knyf Is. 6d.
For corn to Cart Horses
Sterling]
1 5
0
0 6
0
1 11
0
3 2
0
2 5
0
Doctors and Surgeons.^
To docters and chirurgions.
1694 To a consultation of chirurgions [Scots]
Janr. 4th for my leg . . . . 34 16 0
March 18 To John Baillie cherurgion for
drawing my wife blood . 5 16 0
Jun. 6 To John Baillie and DocterKirton 2
for wateing on me in my flux .
. July 2 To Mr. Knox for letting blood .
. 1695 For blooding ....
For Sarsaroot^.
92 16
0
3 12
0
3 10
0
16 6
0
^ Many entries relating to this heading will be found under ' Sundries.'
2 Doctor George Kirkton, a first cousin of George Baillie. See p. 31.
' Sarsa or sarsaparilla, a still much employed medicine.
256
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1695,
[Doctors, etc.]
Augt. To Docter Sincklair.^
Novr. To Docter Burnits man at two
times. .....
To John Baillie cherurgion
For Sarsa root
January To Docter Sincklar .
[Sterling]
£ s. d.
11 12 0
5 16 0
34 16 0
6 0 0
11 12 0
S. 226 12 0
To more expence of Docters, etc. 399 14 0
S. 626 6 a
1696 To Docters and cherurgions.
January To George Kirton for his pains
Aprill For 3 ib. sarsaparella
To Docter Sincklair .
9 To Mr. Rainolds per recept
To Mr, Rainalds
For Andersons pills .
To Georg Kirkton 8 rex dollers to
account
To Georg Kirton for blooding
May To Georg Kirton to acount
January To Docter Burnits man
1697 To Docter Senclair .
To his man
[Scots]
29 0 a
13 10 0
46 16 a
120 0 0
60 0 0
2 0 0
23 4 0
5 16 0
13 16 0
2 18 0
52 0 0
2 0 0
1 Elsewhere called Dr, St, Clair. Probably Dr. Matthew St. Clair of Herd-
manston, East Lothian, the ancestor of the present Lord Sinclair. He was a
deputy-lieutenant of East Lothian, and was in command of the party who went
to interview Mr. Hepburn of Humbie, who in 17 15 was considered as likely to
join the rising. In the skirmish which followed Keith's younger son was killed,
'the first that was killed in the late rebellion,' — Rae's Rebellion. In revenge
the Highlanders plundered Herdmanston House ' of everything valuable which
they could carry with them.' — Rae's Rebellion,
1694]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
257
[Doctors, etc.] [Scots]
Febr. 12 To Georg Kirton a guiny at 23s. £ s. d.
6d 14 2 O
Jany. To Docter Sincklair . . 69 12 0'
1698 To Docter Sinckair . . . 59 14 O
S. 197 8 0*
Small Payments.
Sundr\^ small things.
1694 Jun. For nidles ....
For paper, puder, and jasamin .
To Greenocks man^ .
To materialls to japan ^
For drinkmony and horss hire at
Temple ....
October For caring books 14s., for paper
and for a coch
For sevarell small things 6tb. for
safer of a mufe 2tb 18. .
For paper, wax, pens, 14s, pins,
knitins, 12s.
1695 For sevarell small things Itb. 16,
sevarell things 3tb. 13 .
Febr. 23 To Christinins ....
For a coch 14s., Greenocks man
14s., flitting the seller lOsh. .
To Lisi Rainald for my Robins
vallantin gloves
To the poor 6tb., to Jedbrughs^
cochman 14s., corks 9sh.
[Scots]
1 0 a
14 0
2 0 0
3 0 a
4 13 0
19 0
8 18 0
16 0
5 9 0
8 14 0
1 18 0
1 10 0
7 3 0
^ Sir John Shaw of Greenock.
^ Japanning must have been a comparatively new art in Scotland at this time,
for in 1705 a petition was presented to Parliament by Sarah Dalrymple for
leave to carry on 'a japaning manufactory,' which was opposed by two glass
makers, * M. la Blanc and Mr. Scott.'
' William Kerr, Lord Jedburgh.
R
258
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1695
[Small Payments]
For tape thrid 12s., to a barber
14s., to a nurs 3tb. 10 .
To a poor womian itb. 8, drink
mony to nurses 7 .
ForacochTs. To Reths ^ nm-s 3tb.
10, thrid and knitins 2tb. 2s. .
Jun. To John Formons mariadg for my
self and gris ....
For letters 13s. Lady Boyis
womans mariadg .
For taking Nany to Polwarth
Hows and to buy sop .
To Docter Sincklars childs
christining ....
July For powder and jassamin .
To the woman in the tobuith
lib. 9s. To Tam Noble lib. 9s.
August For letters lib. For letters from
London betwixt August 94 and
this day ....
For helpin windows 10s. To
Manson, barber, l4s.
To Drink mony in the contry
For letters
To Adam cochman .
Novr. To Provist Chis's nurs
To letters at the post 2lb. 4
To Greenocks man 14, Torwoodly
nurs 3lb.
Deemr. To Drumsho boys, etc.
[Scots]
£ s. d.
4 16 0
8 18 0
5 19 0
6 10 0
3 10 0
2 12 0
5 16 0
1 12 0
2 18 0
9 0 0
14 0
8 0 0
1 13 0
2 18 0
2 16 0
2 4 0
3 14 0
2 10
S. 122 0 0
^ Alexander, Lord Raith, at one time Lord Treasurer Depute for Scotland.
1696]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
259
Small Payments'
Scots"
Sundry small debursments, 1696.
£ s.
d.
Janr.
To Andrew Lamb
0 10
0
To hansels ....
10 0
0
20th
For knitins and tap 15s. .
0 15
0
Aprill
For letters 9s. to Ladikins to a
poor woman 11. lis.
2 0
0
For threed ll. 14s., for coch heirs
Xl» t70» • • • • *
3 3
0
For letters ll. 5s. For paper 7s.,
powder 121., to An Faa ll. 9s.
3 13
0
To Justice Clarks ^ nurs
2 18
0
For a bell and cord to the door .
1 9
0
For cariing books
1 13
0
For washing a goun
1 9
0
To a christining of a child of
Breastmills ....
5 16
0
To the woman in Tolbooth
0 14
6
July
For letters 15s., mor 41. 8s.
5 3
0
To Will Padyen
1 16
0
For a hather brush 3s., pins 10s. .
0 13
0
Agust.
For threed 18s., pins 10s., knitins
10s.
To the falconer 14s.
0 14
0
Sept.
To the Justice Clarks man
1 9
0
Octobr.
To a barber for half a year
3 14
0
1st
For 4 ounces of threed
2 18
0
Novr.
For letters ....
2 19
0
To Car when he brought in Rachy
1 18
0
To Will: Padyen
0 14
0
To gloves to Marin Li das .
0 10
0
To the woman in Tolboth
0 14
0
To Meg Vas .
2 18
0
To Gavin Plumers ^ nurs .
2 18
0
To my sister Elisabeth I gave her
S.
2 0
0
65 00
00
1 Adam Cockburn of Ormiston, appointed 28th November 1692.
^ Frequently mentioned in the Account Book of Sir John Foulis,
260
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1697
[Small Payments]
Sundry small Debursments, 1697.
January To hansels and new years gifts
1st To Wisharts man
For letters ....
To drinkmony to Conservater and
Cap[tain] Drumonds nurses
Febr. 12 To the barber a quarter .
For a letter from John
To Justice Clarks man Iti. 9s., to a
poor man 14s.
March To Provist Chieslys 2 nurses
To pouther 8sh. 2 quer paper 14s.
To Jame Carein in arls and to
Jacson 14s. 6d.
To my fathers cochman in drink-
mony .....
Agust. To the old woman .
To flint and ball
To my sister Breastmills nurs .
Sep: To An Faa ....
For letters to b.
Octor 12 To the barber. ....
To fieing and arls
For wafers ....
To Grisies master for cols .
For sweat powther 12s. .
For letters ....
To Jamie Carr ....
For letters ....
To a cochman ....
For bringing Dorathie Farellton
from Berwick
To chairmen ....
For cariing a chair and box twis .
For sevarell little things .
[Scots]
£ s. d.
012 00 00
001 00 00
000 10 00
005 16 00
001 09 00
000 13 00
002 13 00
005 16 00
001 02 00
001 01 06
002 10 00
000 14 06
000 04 00
004 00 00
000 14 00
000 05 00
001 09 00
001 00 00
000 02 00
000 14 06
000 12 00
000 10 00
002 00 00
000 15 00
000 14 06
003 12 00
001 02 00
000 16 00
007 00 00
1696] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 261
[Small Payments] [Scots]
For pins and other litle things £ s. d.
per Francy Newtons account 002 04 00
S. 62 18 0
Scots]
62 10
0
5 16
0
5 16
0
17 10
0
12 0
0
66 13
8
24 0
0
Brothers and Sisters' Accounts.
1696 Pay'd to my brothers and sisters.
January To Archibald Baillie.
the 18 To BailUe Faa on his acount
Febr. 24 To him
Aprill To him .....
To Will Johnston on his acount .
May 13th To John Murduck on his acount
per recept ....
To my mother in law on his acount
To Archbald per recept
July 19 To Archbald Bewhauen on his
acount per recept . . . 21 0 0
To the Lady Gradins ^ servant
]yjargrt Ingles on his acount
To Breastmill ^ on his acount
To Hew Mintgumary on his
acount .....
To John Wight on his acount
To him brought from the 4 page
To John Bayllie.
July 96 To pay a bill for him . . . 130 0 0
To him he pay'd his skiper and
conservaters lady . . . 30 0 0
To Manson for a wige to him . 17 8 0
2
8
0
19
0
0
36
0
0
36
0
0
'86
14
0
^ Helen Johnston, daughter of Lord Wariston, and aunt of George Baillie,
married George Hume of Graden.
■^ Dundas of Breastmiln, Linlithgowshire, married George Baillie's sister
Rachel.
262
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1696
Octor.
[Brothers, etc.]
To him he lent a Ham bargeman
To him when he went away 10
crons, more lib. 9
To pay his chamer rent
For Harton to be his night goun
For making his goun
To him by bill to Holland
"Scots"
£
s.
d.
17
8
0
)
31
9
0
1
0
0
12
17
0
0
14
0
. 120
0
0
360
16
0
Payd to my brothers and sisters 1697.
[Scots]
January To my sister Hellin . . . 009 14 00
To linin to her ... 007 10 00
To muslin to her . . . 001 19 00
To muslin to her ruffils . . 001 10 00
To her ant Johnston on her
acount 026 02 00
To her for flowrd muslin . . 007 15
To Elisabeth.
January To her
To her in mony
To her 2 ells strip flanell
To her 5 ells alamod
To linen for her
To strip muslin to her at 3ti. 18
per ell .
To muslin for ruffils at 3ti.
To her ant Johnston on her
acountt
Jun. 22d To her .
Septm. To her . . .
Novr. To her 3ti. 12s.
To her for flourd muslin
002 00
009 14 00
005 00 00
012 00 00
007 10 00
008 08 00
001 10 00
026 02 00
006 06 00
004 00 00
003 12 00
007 ]5
1698]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
263
[Brothers, etc.]
March To John Baillies acount to Cowin
Taylor .....
To Chisim shoemaker on his
acountt ....
Septm. To Mr. Robison on his acount
Decmr. To him a doller
To Cowin taylor in full of ane old
acount .....
[Scots]
£ s. d.
012 00 00
002 08 00
120 00 00
002 18 00
010 00
Febr. 28
March
Ditto
Aprill
May
Jun.
July
Agust.
Septr.
Johns account is £147 6 0.
To Robert he got for his master .
To him 10s., to making a wastcoat
12, hat and gloves llti. 2s.
To 3 pair shoes by Chisim 6V1. 8s.,
to him iti. 4s., puder 10s.
To him iti. 9, more iti. 9, stokins
to him iti. 6s. .
To him Iti. 10, more 16s. 6d.
To him to go over the water iti.
9sh., more iti. 9s.
To him iti. 9s., for writting his
book 5ti. ....
To him Hi. 9s., stokins iti. 14s.,
bukels 16s. ....
To a wige llti. 16, ane other wige
2I1. 18s., shoes 2ti. 14 .
To him Ih. 9s. To him 14s.,
muslin to him iti. 4s., mending
10s
To him 2ti. 18s., more iti., puder
14s. shoes 2ti. 13s.
To him iti. 9s. butons, threed, shoes,
mending and iti. 2s. lid.
To muslin to him at 3ti. 8s.
002 14 OO
012 04 00
008 02 00
004 04 00
002 06 06
002 18 00
006 09 00
003 19 00
017 08 00
003 17 00
007 05 00
002 11 00
Oil 18 00
Febr.
To James to give his master,
8ti. 14s., writting master, 2ti. 14 Oil 08 00
264 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK . [1698
[Brothers, etc.] [Scots]
To him for books, 10s., shoes iti. £ s. d.
16s., to himself 10. . . 002 16 00
To stokins to him 19s., puder 10s.,
to ge over the water iti. 9s. . 002 18 00
March To pay 3 quarters at the scooll . 017 08 00
To stokins iti. 6s., to his writing
master 14s., to him 9s. . . 002 09 00
Jun. To shoes iti. 10s., dressing a hat
6s., gloves 6s. 6d., pokits 6s. 6d. 002 09 00
October To books to him 2ti. 9s., to Lily
for him 14s. 6d. . . . 003 03 06
To stokins 18s., candle to his scool
14s. 6d., to himself 10s. . . 002 02 06
Edenburg, '99. Mony pay'd my brothers this year.
To Archbald Baillie as follows.
1699 To Georg Drumond in Edinburgh
January tolbuth . . .
To Andrew Carr per instructione
Febr. 24 To Robert Spence
To chamber rent
To John Rainalds
To Mr. Dumbar
To loos a panded coat, the man in
Canigate Tolbuth .
To man in tolbuth 9
To him at severall times 30 19 0
For Mr, Bonnar
October For boord to Will Paton per
recept 129 0 0
To William Thomson per accumpt
and recept . . . .
John Baillie.
January To him . . . . . 81 14 0
To him which was the last he got
befor he counted . . . 38 3 4
Scots"
63 12
0
57 16
0
6 10
0
6 10
6
20 8
0
70 14
0
6 0
0
009 0
0
30 19
0
20 0
0
1700]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
265
■
Brothers, etc'
"Scots'
June
To him the ballance of his count
£ s. d.
that he had his brothers not for 1169 8 4
July
To hime which was the first he
got after he counted with his
brother ....
9 8 4
To his poll ....
4 0 0
To his docters . . .
49 6 0
ovemb
er To him his principall sume of
333ti. 6s. 8d., intrest 185ti. 8s.
Scots
Od
518 14 8
Febr.
Decmr.
S.
James Baillie.
To him at severall times befor his
accumpt was made . . 32 06 0
To Baillie Bowdens accumpt the
first after his counting . . 205 4 4
To him at severall times this year
as per Cash book . . . 155 10 0
The ballance of his last account,
Candlemas '99 . . . 134 6 8
Robert Baillie.
Febr. To him quhich was the last befor
cumpting with his brother
To him at severall times after
cumpting and per Grahm's
account ....
To Baillie Bowdens accumpt
To a bill from Holland
S. To ballance of his last account,
Candlemas '99 £157 5 6
49 14 6
72
6
0
317
13
6
520
0
0
Edenburgh, 1700. My brothers. Deb: to Cash.
Archibald Baillie. [Scots]
To Francy Newton per accumpt . 29 5 0
To Mr. Abercrummie per accumpt 16 10 0
266
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1700'
[Brothers, etc.]
June To Mr. Dumbar by instructions .
To Will: Papon [sic] for boord
and poket mony .
For loosing a bible was panded .
August 24 To Will: Cowins accumpt .
To Provist Johnstons accumpt .
To a baxter in town
To pay Hay, wige maker .
To one Duncan in town
To him at severall times in cash .
To Dinigile Robison .
Deem. To William Paton for 6 monthes
11th boord and poket .
To him by Plumer when he was in
the Tolbooth
John Baillie.
To his poll ....
To hime per recept . .
Robert Baillie.
For his poll ....
To Francy Newton per accumpt
Scots'
£
s.
d.
38
0
0
194
0
0
5
0
0
25
0
0
96
3
0
8
0
0
9
3
0
8
0
a
14
13
0
5
16
0
113 1 0
54
8
0
4
0
0
480
0
0
10
0
0
7
0
0
James Baillie.
Decmr. 4th To him at sevarall times as per
his recept ....
Ditto 30 To him being the first after he
sign'd his account in Deem' 4th
121 5 6
22 11 0
Edenburgh, January 1702. My brothers. Deb. to
Cash.
Archibald. [Scots]
20 To Georg Edgar on his precept . 53 3 0
March To Breastmill for him . . 3 0 0
"Scots'
£
s.
d.
12
0
0
3
6
0
1
0
0
14
4
0
1698J OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 267
[Brothers, etc.]
2d. To my sister Breastmill per his
precept ....
To Androw Car per hir [sic] recept
May 15 To himself ....
To my sister Breastmills woman
per his precept
26 To my sister Breastmill to ac-
cumpt of the above said precept
the whole precept being for
£60 Scots ....
For a skin to his briches and one
sent to my sister Breast[mill] .
June 9 To him sent by his man to Breast-
mill .....
To my sister Breastmill on his
precept ....
For shoes ....
For lowsing his brothers watch he
panded ....
July 18 To Ms. Stothert in Lanrick on his
precept ....
August To Francis Newton per his precept
To my sister Breastmill in pairt of
a precept of £52 12s. Scots
To my sister Breastmill in full of
the precept of £52 12s. .
Oct. 6 To Georg Edgar one his accumpt
Novr. 26th To my sister Breastmill per his
precept ....
To my sister Breastmills woman
in full of the precept abovesaid
of £60 Scots ....
[1698] The expence of my mothers funerals.
[Scots]
To her dead linin . . . 060 00 0
To her coffin . . . . 076 00 0
15
0
0
0
14
0
4
0
0
4
0
0
2
0
0
7
10
0
17
16
0
61
18
0
36
0
0
16
12
0
3
14
0
57
16
0
30
16
0
268
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[1698
Mother's funeral'
"Scots"
To charge of her lying in the
; £
s.
d.
church ....
029
00
0
For writting the letters and paper 14
10
0
For plumkake 18ti. bisket 36
054
00
0
For glases ....
13
00
0
For brecking the ground
14
10
0
To the batthels
07
05
To the kirk tressorar
52
10
0
For the morcloath
11
12
0
For the grave and turf
08
14
0
To the bell man
02
08
To the poor
06
00
For coch and harse
37
04
For cariing the letters
08
00
00
For keeping the stairs
01
10
To the man that drove the harse 02
00
For cariing letters to the country 03
00
To drink mony to the surgons
man ....
07
08
To the Wrights man
02
00
For wins and seek, my oun
. 129
12
0
To the herralds for her scuchens
and horsemunting per the
r
accompt
. 210
06
8
750
9
8
Of this mony only
payd out presently,
the wine being in the
howse . . .478 12 00
Heralds and wine
together is . . 339 18 8
S. 818 10 8
Given out for sundry small things 68 1 0
818 10 8
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 269
My Father-in-law 1
Robert Baillie of Jerriswood, Esqr. was eldest son to
George Baillie of Jerriswood. His Mother was sister to Sir
Archibald Johnston Lord Warriston. After having been
educated in the Universitys of Scotland he went abroad
to study the law, and, being at Paris when Sir William
Lockart of Lee was first time Ambasoder at that Court,
he was recommended by Sir William Lockart to the
Popes Nuncio then at Paris to travel with him to Rome,
which gave him an opertunity of being acquainted with
many great men.
Returning to Scotland some years therafter, he was well
seen in the Civel Law, divinity. History and whatever else
could acomplish a Gentleman and good Christian. Abount
the year 1661 he married ^ Mrs. Rachell Johnston, Daughter
to the Lord Warriston. When the Lord Warriston was
committed to the Tower in the year 1663 Jerriswood came
from Scotland to wait of him, and stayed at London untill
The Lord Warriston was sent to Scotland. Then Jerris-
wood went to Scotland and attended him till his Death.
It is observable That from the time of my Lord Warristons
Death Jerriswood had an impression on his Spirit that he
would suffer death for the Cause of his Religion in the
same place that my Lord Warriston did, which he told to
some of his nearest friends long before his death.
Also about two years before he died, having been long in
the fields alone, he came in and told his Lady that he
would Certainly Suffer Death at the Cross of Edinburgh
for his principles ere long.
Tho' he was a very Bright man he would never accept of
any pubhck Employment, nor be member of parliament.
^ The words • My Father-in-law ' are in Lady Grisell's handwriting, and are
endorsed on the paper. The document itself is not in her hand, and is unpunc-
tuated.
- ' 20 January 1661. Proclaimed in marriage Mr. Robert Baillie of Jerviswood
and Rachel Johnston, daughter of Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston.'
— Lanark Parish Registers.
270 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
because he would not take the Declaration Test and other
Oaths imposed at that time. Yet he lived always peaceably
under the government, acknowledged the King's authority,
and Declared in his last words that he never intended any
thing against the government but to have things redressed
in a parlimentary way.
About the year 1677 Mr. James Kirton, late Minester of
Edinburgh, who was seized in his own Chamber by
Captain Carstairs unwarrantably without any order,
Jerriswood, being lodged near by, was Called, and desired
the Captain to show his order for apprehending Mr.
Kirton; and he having none to produce, Jerriswood Rescued
him out of the Captan's hands. Jerriswood was summened
to Appear nixt day before the privy Council, and having
appeared was fined in five hundred pound Str. and com-
mitted prisoner to the tolbooth of Edinburgh. Afterward
was sent prisoner to the Castle of Stirlen where he Con-
tinued a long time.
In the year 1678 Jerriswood went to London with Duke
William Hamilton and the Noblemen and Gentlemen to
represent the grivences of the Highland Host invading
the West of Scotland.
About the year 1682, when the Duke of York was appointed
Commissioner for the parliament of Scotland, Duke
William Hamilton, Lord Tarras and many other members
of parliament had concerted to Oppose The Duke's being
Commissioner because he was a papist, and had the
Oppinion of Sir George Lockart and Sir John Cunningham
two Eminent Lawyers who thought it was against law.
Jerriswood being consulted all along by Duke Hamilton
etc. in that affair, tho he was no member of parliament
but as a man very Capable of advising them. The Duke
of York, being come to Scotland, by his intrest kept the
two lawyers from pleading against him ; but Jerriswood
was looked upon by the Duke with a Jealous eye and as
an enimy to the government because of his opposing
popery and arbitrary power
About the year 1683 Sir Hugh and Sir George Campbles
of Sesnock, Jerriswood, Commissar Monro and several
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 271
other Gentlemen were seised in London. Jerriswood, being
brought before King Charles the Second and the Councill,
was charged with tresonable practices and of being En-
gaged in a plot against the Government, which he abso-
lutly denyed. The King Threatned him with the Boots
in Scotland, to which he answeared. His Majesty might
^ive him Spurs too but he Could Say nothing but the
truth. He was returned to the gate house and laid in
Irions, where he continued Six Months, and afterwards
sent down in a Yaught to Scotland with Sir Hugh Campble
etc. and there confined Closs prisoner in Edinburgh
Tollbooth, where being Called and examined before the
Councill and charged with Conversing with and advising
the members of Parliament to oppose the Duke of Yorks
being Commissioner and several other things Relating
thereto of which there was no proof, yet he was fined
in Six thousand pound Str. It was then thought their
malice would have gone no further against him but he was
Still detained Closs prisoner, during which time he was
afflected with a fever of Sex weeks Continuance, and
before he was well recovered there came an order from
Court to pursue him before the Justiciary for his life. It
was very remarkable the thursday night before he Re-
ceived his indictment he had some glorious Manefestation
from God, and on the friday morning he wrot out a note
which he convey'd by his keeper to his Sister Mrs. Kirton
in which he said * Sister, Praise, praise God with me for I
* have got such a glorious Manifestation of God this night
* as I would not exchange for Many Many Worlds. They K Chas: th
* are thirsting after my blood, which they will get, but Some z^. ^^^^}^!^^^'
* of the greatest of them will live Short while after."
It was very extraordinary The Justiciary Court pro-
ceeded against him on the same grounds and Reasons
for which he was fined by the Councill without ever the
Councills Sentence being recalled.
On Munday the 22 of December 1684 he received his
indictment to Appear befor the Justice Court at ten a
Clock the day following, wher Sir George Lockart was made
assessor to Sir George McKenzie, then King's Advocat, to
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plead against him. He was Carried out in his nightgown
not being fully recovered of his fever, and was kept in the
Court untill one on the Wedindsay morning, returned
again to prison, appeared before them again about
eleven the same day, and Received Sentence of death to
be execute the very Same day betwext two and three in
the afternoon. When he returned to prison after Receiving
his Sentence, he prayed publickly before all in the room.
Some of his words were * Lord, we take this Severe Sentence
from the land of man as a love token from the heart of my
God This night Shall I be a piller in the House of God
to go furth no more and I shall be with the General!
Assembly of the first born and with the Spirits of Just
men made perfect and the Mediator of the new Covenant
which is best of all.'
A little before his excecution there came two of the town
Curats Mr, Trotter and Mr. Londie to desire access to him,
but his Lady and her sisters told them none of them
Should come there to trouble him. He pleasantly said he
would be content to Speak with the brethren, but he Saw
the Sisterhood were not for it and he had little time to
Spare. Some of his fellow prisoners came to take their
leave of him, asked him what Lord Tarras and others
had witnessed against him. He answeared, * Who Could
Remember fire Side discourse Several years ago.' For he
could not Remember whether one word of it was true or
not. But, tho none of the witnesses agreed in any one point
in the proof against him, yet they Thirsted So much after
his blood that it was resolved this great and good man
Should be made a Sacrifice to Popery and arbitary power.
He said also to some of his fellow prisoners they are to cutt
me in pices and Send me thorrow the Country but do
what they will this body Shall be a glorifyed body in the
day of the Resurrection.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 273
Memoradums and derections to Servants and
ruels layd down by my Mother both fer their
diet and work. Copyd and colected together
1752, made by her Deer. 1743, and the derec-
tions given to the severl Servants.
To THE Butler
1. You must rise airly in the morning which will make
your whole business and houshold accounts easie.
2. Two bells are to be rung fer every meal ; for break- At tlie stated
fast half an hour after 8 and at 9 ; for diner half an hour ^^uis.
after 1 and at 2 ; for super half an hour after 8 and at 9.
At the first bell for super lay the bible and cushions for
prayers.
3. Have bread toasted, butterd tost or whatever is
orderd for breakfast all set ready by the second bell.
4. Consider your business and have a little forethought
that you may never be in a hurry or have anything to
seek, to which nothing will contribut more than having
a fixt and regular places for seting every thing in your
custody in order, and never fail seting every thing in its
own place, which will prevent much trouble and con-
fution, and soon make every thing easie, when you know
where to go derectly for what you want.
5. See that the back doors of the Porch be shut as soon
as the last bell rings for diner and super. N.B.
6. That all the servants that are to wate at table be
ready in the room before we come.
7. That you may never have occation to run out of
the room for what is wanted have always at the sideboard
what follows or any thing ells you can foresee there can
be occation for
Bread
Water
peper
vinigar
Ail
wines
mustard
shalot
smal Beer
sugar
oyle
sallad
274 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
N.B. 8. Stand at the sideboard and fill what is cald for to
the other servants that come for it, and never fill, nor let
any other do it in a dirty glass, but as soon as a glass is
drunk out of, range it dereetly in the brass pail which
you must have there w ith water for that purpos, then
wype it.
9. Never let the dirty knives forks and spoons go out
of the dinning room, but put them all in the box that
stands for that use under the table.
10. When a signe is made to you, go and see if the second
course is ready, then come and take away all the first
course before you set down any of the second.
11. In like maner when a sign is made take away the
second course.
12. Take the napkine of the midle of the table and
sweep all the bread and crums clean of all round the table
into a plate.
13. Have any desert that there is ready to set doun,
always have butter and cheese, and set plates and knives
round.
14. When all that is taken away, set doun water to
wash.
15. Then take away the cloath and set doun what wine
is cald for, with the silver marks upon them, in bottle
boards, and a decanter of water, and glasses to every one
round.
16. ^Mien diner and super is over, cary what leaves of
smal beer and bread into the Pantry your self, and the
cheese, that nothing may go to waste.
17. As soon as the company leaves the dining room
after diner and super come imediatly and lock up what
Liquors are left, clean your glasses, and set every thing
in its place and in order.
18. Always take care to keep your doors and your
cuberts lockt where you have any charge.
N.B 19. The Plate must always be clean and bright, which
a little wiping every day will do, when once it is made
perfectly clean, which must not be by whitening but a
little soap suds to wash it, or spirit of wine if it has got
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 275
any spots, and wiping and rubing with a brush and then
a piece Shambo leather.
20. The Pantry, seler and Larder and every thing that
is under your care must be kept perfectly clean and
sweet, which will require constant attention, but if things
are alowed to run into dirt and confution, double the time
and pains will not set it right, and every thing that stands
in dirty places will soon grow musty and stinking and unfit
to be used.
21. Let not the dirty cheney go into the kitchin till
the cook be ready to clean it and empty the meat of them
into pewter dishes befor it goes to the second table, and
see that none of them is brock when you put them by.
22. Who ever breaks cheny, glasses or bottles let me
know that day, otherways thay will be layd to your
charge.
23. Be exact in giving your pantry cloaths to wash, and
in geting them back and keeping them together.
24. Clean everything without delay and put all your
things in order after every meal and after tea.
25. Have tea, water and what may be usualy cald for
in the afternoon ready, that it may not be to wait for.
26. Every morning clean all the bottle that have been
emptyd the day befor, and set them up in the bottle rack,
this will save much trouble and make cleaner bottles,
then when the dirt is allowed to dry in them, if any has a
bad smel or sedement sticking to them, to make them as
sweet and clean as new, boyle some wood ashes in watter
and make a strong Lee, put the bottles into it befor it is
cold, let them soak in it all night, next day wash them
well in it, then in clean water, a few hours standing in
the Lee may do for those not very dirty, and hang them
in the bottle rack with their heads down, the most neces-
sary thing for having good wine and ale is clean bottles
and good corking, every bottle must be ranced with a
little of the Liquor that is bottling, and one bottle of it
will do the whole.
27. Be constantly atentive in looking about to see
what any one wants at table and when you take away a
276 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
dirty plate take also the dirty knife and fork and give all
clean.
28. You must keep your self very clean.
29. At one a clock in the sumer when the servants are
at out work all the stable people, carters and maids go
to diner, in the winter they dyn at the hour with the rest
of the family altogether after we have dynd, but in the
sumer you and those that wait at table must dyn after us,
both second table and later meat are alowed a clean table
cloth every other day, and you must see that all get their
vituals warm and in order without confution or waste.
N.B. 30. You must see that all the servants about the stables
and out works be out of the kitchin before ten a clock,
except when any of them is obliged to wait at super
N.B. 31. The under butler puts on the gentlemens fiers, cleans
their boots and shoes, helps you to clean every thing, and
to get breakfast and to cover the table, etc.
82. If any of the family is indesposed and eat in their
room, require back from the person you gave it to any
thing that is under your charge, such as knives, forks,
spoons, glasses, linnen, etc., and never allow any thing
of that sort to go about the house or to be out of its proper
place.
33. Deliver carefully back to the house keeper what
ever table linnen you get from her and upon no account
make any other use of them, nor dity them by wyping
any thing as you have cloaths for every use you can want.
34. N.B. Bring up your Account books every monday
morning and lay them at my room door.
35. Every servant gets a mutchkin of beer every meal,
except when they get milk, which is always when there
is any to give them, and then they have only beer for their
diner.
36. The servants gets half an Oat loaf at every meal,
or if it is broun bread or Ry, the loaf is set down to eat
what they want, but no pocketing or waste alowed, and
that you must see to, and observe these ruels for bread
and beer, for your account of it must hold out with this.
37. N.B. If a glass of wine is cald for to company bring
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 277
as many glasses on a salver as there is people, and fill it
befor you come into the room, and leave the bottle at the
door in case more is wanted, and have a clean napkin
hung over your arm.
The Servants Diet
There is to be brewed out of every Louthian Boll of
Malt 20 gallons of small beer, our coper and looms brews
2| bolls at a time which is 50 gallons, that is 400 Scots
pints. From 6 furlets of Malt that is a Louthian boll
and half there is 240 scots pints of beer.
pints
17 servants 3 mutchkins a day each is about 13
pints a day which in 14 days is . . . 182
For the table 2 pints a day in 14 days is . . 28
For second table 2 pints a day is and 2 more . 30
240
This calculation is when all the servants get beer.
8 stone of meal or broun flower should fully serve 17
servants eight days.
There is 30 loves out of the stone of Oat meal, the same
reckoning to be made of broun flower or Ry, backt in half
peck,i loaves. Beef salted for the servants is cut in pieces
of as many pounds as there are common servants, if 15,
every pice is 15 pounds, no alowence in that for the second
table, they geting what comes from the first table.
Sunda}^ they have boild beef and broth made in the
great pot, and always the broth made to serve two days.
Monday broth made on Sunday and a Herring.
Teusday broth and Beef.
Wednesday broth and 2 egs each.
Thursday Broth and beef.
Fryday Broth and Herring.
' This should surely be half pound ; a peck is a measure of capacity containing
about two stones.
278 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
Saterday broth without meat, and cheese, or a puden or
blood pudens, or a hagish, or what is most convenient.
In the big pot for the 2 days broth is alowed 2 pound
of barly or grots, or half and half.
Breakfast and super half an oat loaf or a proportion of
broun bread, but better set down the loaf, and see non is
taken or wasted, and a muchkin of beer or milk when
ever there is any. at diner a mutchkin of beer for each.^
Derections for the House Keeper
The servants diet belongs to her charge but I chose to
put it altogether.
To get up airly is most necessary to see that all the
maids and other servants be about their proper business.
a constant care and attention is required to every thing
that there be no waste nor any thing neglected that should
be don.
The dayry carefully lookt after, you to keep the kie of
the inner milk house where the butter and milk is, see
the butter weighted when churn'd, and salt what is not
wanted fresh, to help to make the cheese and every now
and then as often as you have time to be at the milking
of the cows.
Keep the maids closs at their spining till 9 at night
when they are not washing or at other necessary work,
weight out to them exactly the soap, and often go to the
wash house to see it is not wasted but made the proper
use of, and that there be no linnen washt there but those
of the family that are alowed to do it. often see that
they waste not fire either in the wash house or Landry
and that the Landry be keept clean.
Take care that the Cooks waste not butter, spices, nor
^ From the data here given the cost of feeding a servant would seem to have
amounted to about 3d. per diem, made up thus: bread f^d., beer |^d., meat
|§d., eggs or herrings S^d., barley H^-, sundries -^^d. — total -W-d. = 3d, In
this calculation oats are taken at lOs. per boll, barley at 3d. per lb., malt at
15s. per boll, eggs at 2d. per dozen, and meat at 2d. per lb.
i
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 279
any thing amongst their hands, nor embasel it, and that
the kitchin fire be carefully lookt after and no waste, let
it be getherd after diner and the cinders thi'owen up that
non be throwen out, neither from that nor by the Chamber
maid.
Make the kitchin maid keep all the places you have
lookt up very clean, also the kitchin, Hal and passages,
and see the Cook feed the fouls that are put up right and
keep them clean or they can never be fat nor good.
To take care the house be kept clean and in order, help
to sheet and make the straingers beds, that the beds and
sheets be dry and well aird. get account from the chamber
maid of what candles she gets from you for the rooms and
see there be no waste of candle nor fire any where.
Keep the kie of the cole house but when it is wanted to
get out coals, but be sur it be always lockt at night, that
the Turf stack be not tred down but burnt even forward,
let them fill all their places with coals at once, that the
kie be not left in the door.
To make scimed milk cheese for the use of the family
when ever there is milk enough for it. when there are
more cows then the dairy maid can milk so soon as they
shoud be, let Grisell Wait or any other in the toun I shall
name help her and get for doing it a pint of scim'd milk
a day.
As every thing is weighted to you give out nothing but
by weight.
6 ounces pruens for Cockaleekie or stove.
6 oun. Makerony for a smal dish, 8 oun. larger.
6 oun. vermiceli for a soup.
a pound peas for a puden or soup.
for best short bread 8 lb. flower 3 lb. butter, second
short bread 8 lb. flower 2 lb. butter.
For a bun of 5 lb flower 1 lb butter, 2 lb raisins, 1 lb
curants, 4 ounces caraway seed, 4 ounces sugar and barm.
The servants sheets is changed once a munth.
One week the body linnin is washt, the second week
table and bed linnin and always bouckt when the weather
280 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
will alow of it, the third week the landry maids miist be
keept closs at spining and at all times when they have not
other necessary business, such as Hay and Harvest and
the Barn M^hich the dairy maid goes to when she has a
moments time for it, and always to the miln with any
melder. the dairy maid, house maid and kitchin maid
always to spine when they are not otherways necessarly
imployd which they will often pretend to be if they are
not diligently lookt after and keep to it.
Thomas Yool, George Carter and postilion do not wash
in the house nor
John Hume the Carter.
The other men servants wash in the house or out of the
house as I can agree for them, but not at a certainty,
when washt out I give lOsh. a year for each of them.
All the scim'd milk that can be spaird after serving the
family or when cheese is not made of it, to be measurd
and sent to Grisell Wait who sells it and accounts for it,
or gives it away to such poor people in the toun as I give
her a note of. but non of them to come about the doors
for it.
Take care there be no hangers on, nor santering odd
people come about the house, but those that have business
and that not at male time, which they will always do if
not hinderd.
See that all the maids keep their dusters and washing
clouts dry and in order, and not let them ly about in hols
wet, which soon rots and makes an end of them.
See that every one keeps what is in their charge in there
proper stated places, then nothing will be out of order, or
to seek when wanted, nor any hurry.
In general to keep all the servants in order, with some
authority and make them obay you and do their duty
without feed or favour to any, and to look after every
thing with the same care and faithfulness as if it was
your own, then few things can go wrong, if diffident or
ignorant of any thing, ask derections from me or Mrs.
Menzies or any that can inform you.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
281
EXTRACTS FROM BOOK MARKED
' BILLS OF FAIR * ^
Lord Orknays,2 Oct. 12, 1715
boyld chickens
-with bate butter
and shces of bread
and Hmon
pickled sols
Peas soup
pidgion py
relief hame and
spinich
stacks with minst
meat about them
sewd bief very
tender with sallarly
Rosted Turkic
friassy of cocks-
combs and
sweat breads
4 rosted partrages
aples
Chestons
pears
milk in a boill
confections
milk
pears
peald walnuts
aples
^ There are one hundred and seventy of these.
- Lord George Hamilton, Earl of Orkney, fifth son of the Duke of Hamilton,
one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to George I. He married Mrs. Villiers,
William iii.'s mistress, after the death of Queen Mary, She is commemorated
by Swift for her wisdom and ugliness, and according to Lady Mary Wortley
■Montagu she drew the greatest number of eyes at the coronation of George II.
* She exposed behind a mixture of fat and wrinkles, and before a very consider-
able protuberance which preceded her. Add to this the inimitable roll of her
•eyes and her gray hairs, which by good fortune stood directly upright, and 'tis
impossible to imagine a more delightful spectacle.'
282
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
friasy rabits
ratafia cream
Duck of montroses ^ super
Scots collips w*
marow and black
pudins about them
frut
rost small
wild foull
rost cheas
earned cream
Sunday, Christenmas 1715, w* 9 of our frinds 14 at table-
in all.
Plumb patage with sagoe and
a few f rute
relief minsht pys
fricascy chickens Bran ^ plumb puden
rost bief
2
a rost goos
cold toung
Bran
wild foull
oyster loves
Desert
Ratafia cream
Dutter and chease
sillibubs
Jacolet walnuts
and almonds
aples
stewd pears
chestons
Jellys
butter and chease
1 James Graham, fourth Marquis and first Duke of Montrose, at this time-|
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, married Lady Christian Carnegy, second
daughter of David, Earl of Northesk. The Duke and Duchess seem to have-j
been very intimate friends of the Baillies, as their names occur frequently in the I
Accounts. Lockhart was not unnaturally very sore at the Duke becoming aj
Whig, and sums up his character as follows : ' He was a man of good under-
standing yet was led by the nose by a set of men whom he far surpassed, andl
never in all his by-past life did one material action that was prudent andj
discreet. His courage upon certain accounts was much questioned, but his
unsincerity and falseness allowed by all.' '^ 'Bt&win.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
283
Lord Orfoords 1 28 Deer.
sup
rost bief on by table rost mutton
cut by servants
2 ser
2 partrages
and partrages hasht
ragow hogs feet
a relief 2 young geas
Ragow cokscoms
rosted larks and
Deseart,
V^l/Xl^X OlllClll ILflXt^O
Chestnuts
Jellys
aples
ter and cheese
Confections
butter and cheese
Bisquet
Jellys
oranges
Bishop Sarums ^ Christenmas Din^.
Plumb patage relief Scots colops cokscombs
little bals and sawsages
fricasey forst
Bran
orange pudine
meat
Rost Bieff
and other
things
2
Minsht pys
Bran stood still
Larks rosted
a side of lame
Deseart
Bisquets
stwd pears
r
sillibubs
Jellys
Pears oranges
stwd aples
Bisquits
' Edward Russel, Earl of Orford, at this time First Lord of the Admiralty.
" Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, chaplain to William in.
His mother was a sister of (ieorge Baillie's grandmother, so they were first
cousins once removed. As Bishop Sarum died on 17th March 1715 the dinner
recorded must have been his last Christmas dinner.
284
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
1715
Jan^. at home, 8 at table w* the duck of Montros.^
Broth relief of salmond
pudens hages
sheap head
Lobsters
checker! py
2 rosted turkies
peas
Duke of Roxburgh,- January 3, 1715.
soup with a fouU relief of fish
fricascy chickens little py of cocks combs
lams stons
leg rost mutton
sparagrasse
2d
Rosted wild foull 4 or 5
athine aple py dry'd whitiens
a rosted turkie
Deseart
Limon Cream
dry'd aples
confections
chestons
shelld walnots
Jellys
pears
' See p. 282.
2 John, fifth Earl and first Duke of Roxburgh, at this time Secretary of State
for Scotland. He married Lady Mary Finch, only child of Daniel, Ear* ofj
Winchelsea and Nottingham, and widow of William Savile, Marquis of Halifax, f
His Grace had been very closely associated with Baillie at the time of the passing
of the Act of Union, being one of the inner circle who directed the voting of the J
' Squadrone Volante.' Lockhart describes him as follows: 'He was a man ofj
good sense improven by so much reading and learning that perhaps he was the |
best accomplished young man of quality in Europe, and had so charming a way
of expressing his thoughts that he pleased even those 'gainst whom he spoke. ]
-The Duchess of Roxburgh was said to be the original of the Roxana of Lady j
Mary Wortley Montagu's Town eclogue.
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285
Makrell
Geni Eries,! 10 May 1715
Green Soup
hens w* collofloiir
soles
2d
Rost hear
green peas
colopes
tartes
Mr. Mitchels, Feb. 29, 1716.
Soup relief salmon
fricascy of rabits a py
rost a saddle of mutton
rague sweat breads
truffle and morels
2ncl
3 rost ducklins
4 rost chickens
sparagras
April 1717. Duck and Duck Montrose Lord ^ and
Lady Rothes
Soup relief cods head with alle sauce
natle cale 3 boyld chickens
boyld hame
fricascy rabits
' General Erles. Probably Colonel Giles Earle, distinguished both in war
and politics. He attached himself first to the Duke of Argyle, and was known
as ' the Duke of Argyll's Erie.' He was appointed in 1718 groom of the Prince
of Wales's bedchamber, and afterwards filled several other posts. He was a
coarse humorist who played for his own hand, and eventually became more or
less the tool of Walpole.
"^ John Leslie, eighth Earl of Rothes, eldest son of the fifth Earl of Hadding-
ton by the elder daughter of the Duke of Rothes, who left no sons. On succeed-.
286
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
2n(l
a rosted fillet of bief Larded with a rague of sweat
breads under it
Ptansy Crawfish limon puden
rague sweatbreads sparagrass
8 rost ducks
Deseart
ratafia cream and gellies
chestnuts
cheas butter
oranges
confections aples
cheas
pistoches
silHbubs
1718, 26 May, At Mr. Jhonstons.i
soup with a foule
relief boyld hame and pidgeons
beans and bacon fricasey of chikens
rost veall with rague saus
relief of rost mutton
ing to the earldom of Rothes he assumed the surname of Leslie, and resigned
the earldom of Haddington to his younger brother. He married Lady Jean
Hay, daughter of John, second Marquis of Tweeddale. He was another of the
Whigs for whom Lockhart had not a good word to say, ' being false to a degree,
a contemner of honour and engagements, extremely ambitious, ridiculous, vain,
and conceited (tho' of very ordinary parts and accomplishments), extravagantly
proud and scandalously mercenary.'
* Son of Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston (executed 1663), and uncle
of George Baillie. He was for many years Secretary of State for Scotland under
William and Mary, but was dismissed over the Darien Scheme in 1696. He
was generally known as ' Secretary Johnston,' and at one time was probably
the most unpopular man in Scotland. Lockhart cannot find words in which to
express his hate and contempt for that 'vile and execrable wretch,' who never-
theless was ' much esteemed ' by Queen Caroline for his humour and pleasantry.
He married Catherine Poulett, daughter of the second Baron Poulett, and lived
latterly at Orleans House, Twickenham, where he cultivated fruit and enter-
tained royalty. Lady Grisell's accounts show that many barrels of herrings
were sent to him from Scotland by his dutiful nephew George Baillie.
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287
2 Cour*
frayd eles
a goos
peas
archocks
tarts
3 chickens
cold salmond
Dessert
Milk
Chirries
Milk
strawberes
silibubs with strawberres
sweet meats
milk
oranges
milk
Augst 1718. Lord Sundrelands,^ 4 folks at table
Soup without anything init
Hog potch of bief mutton veall
2
boyld sols
fricasy chickens
3
Rost fillet bief
puden
4
4 patriedges
bottams of Raeteehocks
2 young hairs
broyld cells
Desert
frut sillibubs
frut frut
Limon cream
frut
frut
1 Charles Spencer, third Earl of Sunderland, married, first, Lady Arabella
Cavendish, fifth daughter of the Duke of Newcastle, and, second, Lady Anne
Churchill, second daughter of the Duke of Marlborough. He was at this time
First Lord of the Treasury. He was a great book collector, and a most un-
attractive character. His son succeeded as Duke of Marlborough.
288
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
Dinner at Sir William Bairds, 30 Dess. 1718
brown soup
chached calfs head
2nd
stewd carp
asalray se\^ ^
rost Lame.
3rd
fasond with Larks about it mintched
pys jellies bran
salmond scoloped oysters
gundie partrages
with pickels and wood cocks.
Lord Anadall,^ 29 January 1719, 10 at table
Brown Soup
Relief fish
backed pudins stewed Breast of veall
Beef or Mutton py
stewed fillet of boyled chickens
Beef
whit soup
relief boyld Turkic with
forsed balls and sagages
' A celery salad.
^ William Johnstone, third Earl and first Marquis, married, first, Sophia,
daughter and heiress of John Fairholm of Craigiehall, Linlithgowshire, and,
second, Charlotte Vanhose, only child of John Vanden Bempole. * He was a
man framed and cut out for business, extremely capable and assiduous ; of a
proud, aspiring temper, and when his affairs and politics went right, haughty to-
a great degree ; and vice versa the civillest, complaisantest man alive, and a
great affecter of popularity.' — Lockharfs Papers. He played for his own hand,
and was trusted by neither party.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 289
[Bills of Fare]
2dC.
Phesan and partrage
sparagras scoloped oysters
aple tart w* cream
ragu of sweet broyled salmond.
bread and cockscombs
3 Ducklins
DeseH
a salver with sweet meats
stweed pears pistosenuts
butter chees
sillibubs and jellies a lagere salver sillibubs and jellies
wt sweet meats
cheese butter
pistashe nuts stweed aples
a salver with sweet meats
suyer
confections
Lobster rost lame
silibubs and jellies a ring w* wild silibubs and jellies
foull collops and pickles etc.
bran cold tart
confections
feb"^ 23, 1719. Super att home D and Ducthess of
Montross Lord and Ladye forster.
4 rost chickens
salmond collops
Candles
eating poset fatafia cream
pattie a salver w* jellies and a hair ragud
sillie bubess
T
290 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
sago lemon hatted
kiti
Candles
frecasy veals drest Lobsters
feet 3 Ducklines
At home Lady Mary Worthly.^
A soup with Marrabon
2
boyld lam
a plum pudine
3
rost turkie with mushrom sauce
and pickles w* a litle bread
Deseri
Curds
pears Jelly aples
cream
^ Hatted Kit, a preparation of milk, etc., with a creamy top. 'Make 2
<iuarts of new milk scalding hot, and pour upon it quickly 4 quarts of fresh
butler milk ; let it stand without stirring till it becomes cold and firm, then take
off the hat or upper part, drain it in a hair sieve, put it into a shape for half-an-
hour, turn it into a dish, and serve with cream and sugar.' — Stevens's Farm Book,
1855, vol. ii. p. 299.
^ The famous Lady Mary Pierrepont, eldest daughter of Evelyn, first Duke
of Kingston, and the Lady Mary Fielding, daughter of William, Earl of
Denbigh. She rnarried Edward Wortley Montagu, eldest son of the Honour-
able Sydney Montagu. She was at this time a great friend of Lady Murray,
n^e Grisell Baillie, a friendship which came to an end a few years afterwards.
In 1721 'the peace of Mrs. Murray's family had been painfully broken in
consequence of the brutality of a servant of her brother-in-law. Lord Binning,
who, in a fit of drunkenness, burst into her bedchamber in the middle of the
night and threatened to put her instantly to death if she ventured to resist his
violence. With great courage and presence of mind she succeeded in alarming
and calling up the family; but for this crime, which was held to be a capital
burglary, the man was condemned to death, though afterwards his punishment
I
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 291
[Bills of Fare]
21 [Novr 1719]. Lady Hindfoord,i L^ Sutherland.^
10 at table.
1. Broth sheaps head boyld goos and a hagis
2. rost veal 2 casterlings limon pudine collerd pig the
relief was fish
Confections and Jellys.
14 Decmr (1719). Super at Mr. Cockburn 11 at table
22 persons in al.
head, eating poset in cheana high dish, foot, hauch
venison, one side backd pudine, 2 partrages and larks,
midle litl dish with sallory sellet made and unmade,
othe[r] s^ veal collops white sauce, 2 boyd pullets w*
persley sauce in the midle pickles of other sort than the
comon ones
In the midle of the table a pirimide sillibubs and orang
cream in the past, above it sweet meets dry and wet.
was commuted for transportation. On the subject of this escape, Lady Mary
thought fit to exercise her wicked wit in an infamous ballad, which of course
she loudly disclaimed all knowledge of, but of which her own letters to her sister
Lady Mary plainly enough betray her to have been the writer. , . . The subject
is repeatedly alluded to in the printed collection of her letters, and still more
pointedly in some of those that have not been published.' — Appendix to Lady
Murray's Memoirs.
^ Lady Hyndford, daughter of John, fifth Earl of Lauderdale, and wife of
James Carmichael, second Earl of Hyndford.
" John Gordon, sixteenth Earl of Sutherland. President of the Board of
Trade. Took a leading part in suppressing the '15. * He is a very honest
man, a great asserter of the liberties of the people, hath a good rough sense, is
open and free, a great lover of the bottle and of his friend, brave in his person
which he hath shown in several duels, too familiar for his quality, and often
keeps company below it.' — Mackay. He married three times.
292 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
5 June (1720) Mr. Wallop ^ and 8 at table
1. Barly broth with lambs head
2. a chean rost mutton
3. a dish turbet
4. Chickens, hair, peas and cold toung
Deseart
Milk, strawberies, SilUbubs
June 21 St, Earle of Staires ^ and eleven at Table ^
Scots Broth
Remove of Turbet and broild salmond
muton collups Pigen py chickins boyld
Boyld Lamb and French beans
2 Turkic poults.
Mushrooms Peas
Cheries Tart
Lobsters cream loafs.
a goose.
Desert and
Cream Jellies strawberies
Cheries swetmeats allmond-cream
Lemon Cream
1 John Wallop, afterwards first Earl of Portsmouth, at this time M.P. for
Hampshire, and a Lord of the Treasury. He was created Baron Wallop and
Viscount Lymington on 1 1 June 1720, a few days after the date of this dinner.
* John Dalrymple, second Earl of Stair, famous both as a general and as a
diplomatist. At this time he must have just returned from his brilliant embassy,
to Paris. He married Eleanor, Viscountess Primrose, daughter of the second
Earl of Loudon, and widow of James, first Viscount Primrose. The curious
phantasmagoria of the death of her first husband in Rotterdam seen by her in
Edinburgh was the origin of Sir Walter Scott's ' My Aunt Margaret's Mirror,*
and the circumstances of her marriage with Lord Stair were almost as peculiar.
' This Menu is not in Lady Grisell's hand.
I
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 293
[Bills of Fare]
15 July 1720. At the Princess ^
the Lady of the bed chambers Table at Richmond,
9 at table
a white soup with hearbs
salt rosted mutton
sids fish a large Mackerall
fricassy chickens
bacon and beans
a chicken py
midle a piece bief stewd whole
no relief
2 pullets at top
6 pigions at foot
sids peas
broyled herins with butter souce
lopsters
beans
tart in the midle
Deseart
a big dish in the Midle with
connections and frute only
22 June Prince Wales Duchess Shrosberries ^ Table.
13 at one and 6 at a litle.
midle soup with j)eas
top boyld Lamb
foot rost mutton
one s^ fish boyld chicken rague
side pigion py, veal colep, fricassy
' Carolina Wilhelmina, Princess of Wales, daughter of the Markgraf of \
Anspach. j
- Duchess of Shrewsbury. One of the Ladies-in-Waiting on the Princess of
Wales. According to Lady Cowper she was rather forced on the princess by
the king, but she ' had some extraordinary talents, and it was impossible to
hate her so much as her Lord. . . . She had a wonderful art at entertaining and
diverting people, though she would sometimes exceed the bounds of decency.
She had a great memory, had read a good deal, and spoke three languages to
perfection.' — Diary of Lady Cowper.
294 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
2 Course
midle
tart with
L cream
top
pullets
foot
pigions and partrage
side
sturgen,
venson pasty peas
side
fryd sols.
, frensh beans,
lopsters
Deseart
2 big dishes frute and confections.
20 Nov 1722 at L^ Carlils,i 7 at Table.
1. A Dish stewd Meat muton bief veall and crimp cod,
the fish set up and rost beaff set down with gravie sauce
boyld with shalot on one side and bitrowes w* oyl and
veniger on the other side in litle chena hollow plates
2. A pigion py and Mutton collips stew'' Ld. Rothes way
8. 5 Ashiets ; 3 teel, squab pigions, scollopd oysters,
fryd smelts and butterd scorsonera or something of that
kind hertickhos cut in thin slices will do better it was
cream bet up with butter was on it
4. rid herin and tarts butter on one side and cheas
on the other
5. Deseart : oranges, apels, pears, and chestons all the
dishes litle and very neat no case with knives on the
by table.
17 Decmr. 10 at a big table L^ Carlile,i etc. 1722.
1^*. 7 dishes 2 soups, a terean, stewd pigions w* sweat
breads mushrooms etc. with a sauce half rague half
* Charles Howard, third Earl of Carlisle, at this time Constable of the
Tower of London. He held several important posts under Whig Administra-
tions. He married Lady Anne Capel, daughter of Arthur, first Earl of Essex.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 295
[Bills of Fare]
fricassy, a litle py of toungs etc. veall a la dob with
spinag sauce a boyld pullet sallary sauc
2 Releaffes a whole turbot and fryd smelts and rosted
veal
Host Bieff on the By table for any that cald for it
2°*^. 7 Dish a Turkic, a Phesant, snyps, partrages, a
wild duck and larks round
3^. 7 Dish in chena a large dish crawfish, a tart, fryd
soils, Blang mange, sallary and chease, sparagrass, lambs
livers whole w* sauce
Deseart
Aples in cyrop and pears stewd in a round glass in
raw ones round with a foot and raw pears round
them
Jelluy 6 glasses 3 of biskets
hipd as high betwixt each
2 glasses, a high scaloped glass
in midle wet orang chips
Milk in candle candle bowl milk
china bowl but I in midle wet orang chips
think glas as good salver confections in the
middle
carrans in cyrop the like below aples with cyrop and
and raw pears round raw ones round
1725, January 22 Duke Hamilton i L^ Twedle 2
Rothes ^ Selkirk ^ 10 at Ta.
2 end Dishes soup and Lamb Midle dish bieff py in
blood one ashiet in each salt tung w* red cabage and
sasages and boyld Turkic with salary sauce.
2 Reliefs salmond and sadle of Mutton
' James, fifth Duke of Hamilton, married, first, Anne, daughter of the fourth
Earl of Dundonald ; second, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Strangeways ; and
third, Anne, daughter of Edward Spencer.
"^ Lord Tweeddale. John Hay, fourth Marquess, one of the Representative
Peers in six Parliaments. He married in 1748 Frances, daughter of John, Earl
Granville. ^ See note 2, p. 285.
* Lord Selkirk. Charles Douglas, formerly Hamilton, Earl of Selkirk, one
of the Lords of the Bedchamber to the king ; died unmarried.
296 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
2nd Service
partrage and wood cock young Ducklins for end dishes
the midle dish aple py with cream
2 ashiets on each side, rague with sweat bread, Aspara-
grass rost oysters on Squers and marrow pudine
Deseart Jelly ratafia cream sweat meats frute etc.
Mr. Dundas of that Ilk ^ Jan. 25 Mr. Dundas Advocate ^
Sr. G. Eliot 3 and Lady
At the 2 ends soup and rost Mutton pickles in the
midle, ane ashet on each side, salt toung and fricassy of
rabets, relieff of salmond.
2nd Course
ends 2 Ducklins, a Rague of sweatbread pallets etc.,
Midle dish aple py with cream
2 ashets on each side, Tanzie, fricassy ousters, caparata.
Lamb.
Deseart, confections, frute, etc.
April 12, 1725. At the Duke Chandes^ howse at
Cannons. A Duson at Table.
1^*. a broun soup and a white soup, fricassy, pudine,
broun rague, and collopes, ane Eparn in the Midle.
^ Mr. George Dundas of that Ilk, advocate, at this time M.P. for Linlith-
gowshire, married Alison, daughter of Brigadier-General Bruce of Kennet.
^ Mr. Robert Dundas, advocate, eldest son of Robert Dundas of Arniston.
He was at this time M.P. for the county of Edinburgh. He became Lord
President of the Court of Session in 1748.
3 Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto, second Baronet, son of Sir Gilbert Elliot. (See
p. 221.) He was at this time M.P. for Roxburgh, afterwards a Lord of Session
as Lord Minto. He was interested in music, arboriculture, etc. He married
Helen Stewart of Allanbank. His daughter Jean was the authoress of the
' Flowers of the Forest.'
* Duke of Chandos. James Brydges, first Duke of Chandos, built a magnifi-
cent house at Canons near Edgware, where this dinner took place. According
to Defoe there were one hundred and twenty persons in family, and the choir
entertained them every day at dinner. Pope is said to have drawn his Timon's
Villa from this house.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 297
[Bills of Fare]
Reliefs 2 salmond, Lamb, and Chickens.
2^. 3 rings with 5 plates 4 low and one higher in the
midle in each, 1^* ring a green goose a chicken, a Rabet.
the midle ring, blang Mangie and broun Mangie, brunt
cream, custart white and custart green or Tanzie.
3rd. ring, a dukline, turkie pout, 2 pigions, broyld
chicken, rabet.
2 ashets on each side, a Rague sweat breads, fryd sols,
hartichocs spnch.
15 March [1727]. At L^. Mountjoys ^ 10 at table,
7 and 7 and 2 removes.
l^t. a Tareen with Beafe, veall, etc.; ducklins, chickens,
pigions, pallets, sweatbreeds, cocks combs, all sorts of
roots, Asparagras, sallary, licks, etc. : in midle a rogued
Turkie with oysters gisert's livers. Morels and sundry
things put on scewars and stuck in it and light broun sauce.
sids : 3 litle pudins, a plumb, a green, a white, and
backed one cut and put betwext them. Beef collops stewd
tender, Pigions one suortout, and a very smal sadle
mutton ; at other end white soup and a pullet in it,
7 dishes in all.
Relieffs, a jack with pudin in it, and whitens w* smelts
and a good sauce, a ragued breast of veall prety white.
3 young ducks, 4 Turkies, aple tart, and small sweat-
meat tarts round it, craw fish, 3 sols fryd and craw fish
tails and shrimps, and bodys craw fish brused and put
in the sauce and pourd on the midle of them.
3 whole sweatbreads and a piece veall stuft with forst
meat, the skiny piece of the veall or lamb the bigness of
a large sweat bread and put in the midle ; they were all
prity white and bate butter and limon, Asparagrass with
cream and butter sauce, and tost and fryd sippets [?] round.
1 Thomas Windsor distinguished himself in the wars in Flanders, and was
made Viscount Windsor of Black Castle in the Irish peerage. He was afterwards
made Baron Mountjoy in the peerage of the United Kingdom. He married
■ Charlotte, daughter of the seventh Earl of Pembroke.
298 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
Deseart : 9 all on guilt cornered salvers, low feet ;
midle, with one row glass salvers with half inch broad
brims with franch plumb, Apricoks, fruts dry, Almond
bisket and Ratafia. 8 in all, and wafers put in betwixt
them, a salver above that w* 4 frute jelly s and wet sweat-
meats, with covers, and betwixt them high glasses, white
confits on the top, a scolloped glass cornered brim.
2 ends bottom row. Jelly harts horn and limon and
ratafia cream, a salver on top with the same cornered
brimd glasses as in the midle.
2 sids l^K row, Aples in sawcers and frensh figs and
plumbs, the last pistashe nuts on one and aples in cyrop
in the other, the same cornerd brimd glasses as the rest>
the 4 corners, 2 slist oranges and 2 almonds and resins, in.
glass broad cream bowls.
At Lord Hallifax ^ in the Country at Bushy Park,
28 May 1726.
green soup
veal in it
Bacon and Beans veal stewed pidgeon pye
carp
Relief Roast mutton
Pidgeans, Chickens,
and young turkies
Ragout of sweatbreads Pease
Tart
Sparagras green geese char
^ Lord Halifax. George Montagu, first Earl of Halifax, married, first,
Ricarda Posthume, daughter of Richard Saltonshall, and, second, Mary, daughter
of the Earl of Scarborough.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 299
[Bills of Fare]
1727, June 6. Sir Robert Walpoul/ Mr. Dodington.^
8 at Table.
5 dish, a sop, Pudin, Hamb, 4 boyld chickens, a stwd
fillet bieff ; 2 releiffs, fish and rost Mutton.
7 dish ; 2 young gees, Turrem green pigions, curran
tart, peas stewd, burnt cream, hautichok sukers, Angeloty.
Deseart : Confections, frute, Jellys, and Milk.
We was eight days at Twitenham. We had always an
Eparn in the midle, 2 dish at first, 4 at 2^, 6 at the last,
the variety was soups, peas, Mager, gravie, rise, barly,
vermaselly, variety of meat was rost Bieff, Bran, stwd
cops [?], pigions, minsd pys, boyld lamb, rost lamb, boyd
foull, rost foull and sasages, jack, hard fish, stewed rump
bieff, boyld beaff, rost veall, ragu'd breast veall, Turkic,
chean pork, rosted breast of pork, Lamb, boyld and backed
pudin, orang pudin, Asparagrass, Brocaly w* sasages,
vension Pasty, rost venison, rost mutton, wild Ducks,
rabets, boyld wild ducks w* ounions, larks, rost goos,
boyld goos, sturgen, rague sweat breads, hogs pudins
and white ones, lamb frys, fricassy rabets, rost rabets.
^ Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Ean of Orford, at this time Prime Minister,
This dinner took place shortly before the death of George I., the news of which
reached Walpole at Chelsea on the 14th. He is said to have killed two horses
in carrying the tidings to the new king at Richmond.
- (ieorge Dubb Doddington, afterwards Lord Melcomb Regis, at this time
a Lord of the Treasury. He left a diary which has been published, and which
shows the writer in anything but a pleasant light. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
who never missed an opportunity of saying something spiteful of her quondam
friend, Lady Murray, writes in 1725 : • Mrs. Murray has got a new lover in the
most accomplished Mr. Doddington.'
300 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
26 Janur 1728. Mr. Onsly/ the Speaker, Hadinton,^
and Marchmont,^ Coll. Hope, Mr. Johnston, and
Mr. Mitchell. 11 at Table.
l^t. 7 dish : a soup, a sweatbread and cox comb py,
a Lamb, 4 on the sids, a pudin, boyld chickens, ragu'd
fillet bieff. Tush. 2 relieffs, Turbet and rost mutton.
2°d. 7 dish : wild foull, cheston py and a goos, on the
sids craw fish or white beans and sasages, Asparagras,
minsd collips and sasages, burnt cream.
Deseart : Sweatmeats and Jellys and sillibubs, etc.
London, 30 March 1728. L^ Carlyl,* Lady Lechmoor,^
Lady Mary,^ Lds. Stairs,'^ Hadinton,^ Marchmont.^ 12
1st, 4 (jish : Soup, Lamb, sids, 4 boyld chickens and
a pudin ; 2 relefes, crimp hard [?] and forsadle of mutton.
2^^. 5 dish : 2 Duclins, date py, Kidny beans and sheaps
toungs rosted ; sids, a crab and Asparagras.
^ Arthur Onslow was elected Speaker on 23rd January 1728, so this was no
doubt a dinner in his honour. He held this most distinguished position until
i8th March 1761, when he retired after thirty-three years 'constant and un-
wearied attendance in the chair.'
^ Thomas Hamilton, sixth Earl of Haddington, whose son. Lord Binning,
was married to Lady Grisell Bailiie's daughter Rachel.
^ Alexander Hume, second Earl of Marchmont, K.T. , Lady Grisell Bailiie's
brother. He was the third son of the first Earl, his elder brothers predeceasing
their father. He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir George Campbell
of Cessnock, when he assumed the surname of Campbell.
■* See note i, p. 294.
■ ' Lady Elizabeth Letchmere, daughter of the third Earl of Carlisle, married,
first, Nicholas Letchmere, Attorney-General in 1718 and raised to the peerage
in 1721 as Lord Letchmere. 'The discreet and sober Lady L re has lost
such furious sums at the Bath that it may be questioned whether all the sweet-
ness the waters can put into my lord's blood can make him endure it, particularly
;^700 at one sitting which is aggravated with many astonishing circumstances.'
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She married, second, Thomas Robinson
of Rokeby Park.
^ Lady Mary Howard, daughter of the Earl of Carlisle.
' See note 2, p. 292.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
301
[Bills of Fare]
Deseart : Jellys and Sillibubs, curds and cream, pears
iid aples, pistaches and scorcht almonds, Bisket round
le milk.
The following three Menus are from a jotting left by
ady Grisell of dinners at Naples shortly before Lord
inning's death : —
18 Dec 1732. Mr. Horner Archer, etc. 12 at Table.
Soup
oyld veal and Lamb plumb pudin and
colifloor litle paties round it
Soup
2 reliefs fish and muton py
peas
4 wood cocks, 4 snyp
french lof drest
with milk salmagundy ^
fryd soles
)rainorely [?] Pig burnt cream
Biskit
rest buter etc.
pistaches
Aples
Chesnuts
graps drest buter upon crots
plumb etc. bisket
Mr. H. Hunters. 16 Folk.
Mr. Horner. 10 at Table, 6 by table.
Mrs. Archer.
Boyld leg Pork
Soup
mustart pickle, etc. potatos
pudin rague veal and sweet breads cok comb, etc,
turnips fish souce
fish
' Salmagunde,' a dish of minced meat with eggs, anchovies, vinegar, pepper,
302
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
relife, pigion py
wood cocks and partrages
salet Minshed py Morells
cold toung fryd soils
peas fish sause
loyn veal
Peas pudin
Soup ^
Boyld Turkic
Pork and torts
relief of fish
Salmagundy
Turnips
rost udder
Aple Dumplin
ragued veal
frogs
salet
The following Menus are from some loose sheets of
paper, and relate to a visit paid by Lady Harvey ^ at
Mellerstain : —
Super, Thursday, July 15, 1756.
cold Chickens
Waffles colerd pig
Jelly
Hartichoks Salmon
Collops
^ There is no heading to this Menu, but it is on the same sheet as the two
ipimediately preceding.
^ 'Sweet Molly Lapell,' familiarly known as 'Torn' in the Prince of Wales's
circle, daughter of Brigadier-General Nicholas Lepell, at one time Maid of
Honour to the Princess of Wales, afterwards Mistress of the Robes to her when
Queen. She married John Hervey, the handsome son of the Earl of Bristol,
who rather neglected her. She was a great friend of Lady Murray, and stood
loyally by her in her quarrel with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Indeed, she
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
303
[Bills of Fare]
Diner, IQ^.
Soup
relif cod
pickls
rost beef
salad
Tarts
cowhead
chickens
puffs
veal colops
peas
pickled salmon
Diner, Sunday, 18th.
Giblet broth
relief salmon
salad
rost beef
Colerd Eel
pudens
Hagis
moor foul
Cold Pig
peas
cox coims
no super
but strawbery
Diner, 21
Rumble of Veal and broth
Salmon
was beloved by the whole Baillie family. It was she who attended Lady Grisell
on her deathbed, both Lady Murray and Lady Binning being ill at the time.
She was noted for her beauty, and seems to have been a charming personality.
Her portrait still adorns the walls of Mellerstain. Her husband was a great
friend of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with whom his wife was not on speaking
terms on account of the quarrel between Lady Mary and Lady Murray.
304
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Bills of Fare]
Loin of Mutton and stakes
Stewed cucumbers Makerony
Moor foul
Cream
Super
veal colops
fryd eggs
strawberys
Mellerstain 1748 account of what is spent yearly in the
house of meat and drink, etc., in quantity, but not
the value. ^
6 oxen cut in 199 pieces, besK
ies beef from
Kelso
6^
Wedders
•
19
Lambs
•
11
Ewe ....
•
1
Calfs ....
•
3
Swine
•
4
Pigs ....
•
10
Eggs besides those of our owr
1 hens 2284
Candle Stones
* • •
•
. 30
Butter for sheep .
. 12 pound
for greesing wool
Spd
•
in family
. 300 pd
320
Soap pounds
•
231
Cheeses . . . .
• 1
24
Fouls eat or given away.
Turkies . . . .
56
Geess
22
Hens . . . .
62
ducks . . . .
33
capons . . . .
12
Chickens . . . .
191
376
^ It must be remembered that Mellerstain was at this time a lady's establish-
ment.
1749]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
305
Bottles
Liquors Claret . . . . ... 31
Port
62
Hermitage
18
Cotrotee .
5
Canary .
33
Modera .
28
Chirrie
56
Serainse .
9
Tocky .
1
"WTiite wine
11
Frontiniac
12
Cyder
54
Strong Ale
269
Second Ale
458
Bottled small Beer .
218
Bottles 1265
Small Beer in Barels 850 gallons Scots
Flower 111 Stone 14 pounds
Oat Meal 264 stone
Mellerstain 1749 Account of what is spent yearly in the
house of meat and drink, etc., in quantity, but not
in value.
5 Oxen cut in 166 pieces
5
Wedders
18
Ewes ....
6
Lambs
12
Calfs ....
4
Swine
5
Pigs ....
27
Eggs besides those of our own hous
e . . . 3720
Candles, Stones 29, pounds 4
Soap pounds . . . .
. 228|
Butter, our own pounds 2161
Butter bought pounds 128/
. 344
Cheeses ....
a
.51
u
306
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
Herrings, half Barrels .
Tusk fish ....
• ■ •
• • •
Fouls eat or given away
Turkies ....
45
geess ....
ducks ....
5
. 22
Hens . .
. 81
Chickens ....
. 181
Pigions, our own
. 113
[1749
4
5
447
Liquors
Small Beer in Barrels, 850 Scots gallons
Flower, Stones 134, pounds 8
Oatmeal and Ry, Stones 272
Bottles
Claret
26
Port
65
Hermitage
10
Canary .
25
Shirrie
43
Modera .
24
Frontiniac
4
Seraionse
4|
Strong ale
152
Second Ale
572
Bottled small Beer
. 217
Orange wine
33
White wine
15
Cotrottee
5
Punch besides shrub
v'
34
1232|
Extracts from small paper covered book marked ' Cash
Book begune 22 March 1729. For no use at all.'
It deals with a visit to Bath and Bristol. In this
749]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
307
book Lady Grisell uses the word * By ' when she
means ' Paid to.'
arch 22 By May Menzies to account .
. £1
1
0
By Account pay^ Ja Johnston
. 1
0
3
Fraught, etc. payd Mrs. Towyn
0
16
6
Cariing Allers
0
2
0
Doc: Gibson's man .
0
5
0
Plasters
0
1
0
Limmons sent to Mellerstane .
0
10
5
3 p^ under stokins .
0
6
0
Megilsidler 5s. Pate Allan 2
0
7
0
Betty and Nelly
2
2
0
Kimergham Drinkmoney
0
13
6
Whitehall Drinkmoney .
0
13
6
Mr. Halls Carter
0
2
6
• •
S'" James Halls Coachman
0
2
6
j»
John Coachman 7\
'
Mo wages at 10£ a year,
6
6
0
14
9
2
By the expence of 6 coach horses
and 8 Riding horse from
Dunce to Bath . 30
1
n
>5
cariing Bagage . 2
guids . . 0
Turnpicks . . 0
mending sadles and
blooding . . 0
2
9
2
5
0
0
2
4
5>
pistol ball 2s sope Is. 0
Bassindain and Hume' s
3
0
horss . . .0
4
0
JJ
Washing on the Road 0
16
2
>5
Eating for 5 and Georg
in the Coach and 2
maids from Berwick
16 days to Bath . 23
18
6
9>
Servants at Dune . 0
J,
0
308
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1749
Api 17
By 7 mens board 16 days
at Is. pr day . 5 12
„ Duncan and John each
5s. of wages . 0 10
„ John Coachman and
Tams board 5 days
at Bath and Joeys 0 15
,, Horses 5 nights at Bath 6 18
,, Shoeing horses at Bath
etc. . . . 1 14
„ Tam to cary home 9
horses . . 14 14
0
0
0
0
8
0
£88 9 7J
L: B is to pay the half of this
£88, 9s. 7d|.
[Note as to details of £30,ls. 9|d. above stated, con-
tained on a separate piece of paper and not in Lady
Grisell's handwriting.]
Berwick a night .
1 7
1|
Belfoord a night .
1 12
0
Anwick a night .
1 14
8
Morpeth a night .
1 14
8
New Castle a night
2 0
4
Darlington baitting
0 6
11
fferryhill a night .
1 10
8
Northalerton a night
1 11
0
Borrowbridg a night
1 14
3
Wetherby baitting
0 10
1
ffarybridge a night
1 14
4
Doncaster baiting
0 11
3
Blyth a night
1 12
8
Nottingham a night
1 11
8
Leister a night
1 14
3
Smokington a night
1 7
8
Coventry baitting
0 9
10
31] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 309
Warwick a night .
Hartfoordbridge baiting
Mortinmash a night
Cirensister a night
Alerton baitting .
Duns
Franc
[Note as to Lodgings at Bath.]
my 3 rooms and one Caret ,
■ week L. Bin 2 rooms and half and Caret .
Mr. Mitchell 2 rooms and a half
1
8
1
0
4
0
1
11
7
1
14
5
0
7
11
28
9
H
1
0
12
6
30 1
H
£1 15
0
1 10
0
1 5
0
4 10 0
p. Month, 18£.
Durnel, May 20, 1731, that we went abroad To the
October, new still, 1733, that we left Paris, and to
the Oct., old style, that we came to London,
1733.1
oterdam 29 May 1731 Old Stil and the 9^ of June N. St.
gdr. St. doit.
£ s. d.
For Boat fraught
from
the yaught
•
6 0 0
0 11 0
Diner at
•
6 0 0
0 11 0
bagage
•
2 6 0
0 4 2
a coach
•
2 10 0
0 4 6
a scout 2 from Roterdam
to Delph .
•
5 2 0
0 9 4
' Contained in a paper-covered notebook 75"X6^". The outer column giving
: values in Sterling money has been added by the editor. For money tables
ip. 421.
' Schuit or trekschuit, a public boat drawn through the canals by horse.
gdr. St.
doit.
£
s.
d.
4 12
0
0
8
4
3 2
0
0
5
8
1 10
0
0
2
8
0 12
0
0
1
0
3 18
0
0
7
0
6 9
0
0
11
9
1 5
0
0
2
3
310 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour]
Paline, etc., at Delph
Coach hire at Roterdam .
Coach at Delph
Seeing the church ther .
N.S. for a large hamper and
lock and a little ham-.
per for Grisie
June 10. Passage of letters to the
Saterday 11 day
Exchange for 150 £ Stel.
Bag and portage of
521g. Sst.
the roof in scout from
Delf to Leyden each 10s
1 doit Servants in
scout, 7s. Id. .
a hamper for the Drogs .
2 Tea Kells .
Bagage from Roterdam
to Lyden, . . .420076
11. For Breckfast and diner
the last Ig. pr head
and for wine . . 14 2 0 1 5 10
To Edwards for 2 nights
lodging at Roterdam
he reckoned it a week
payd by J. Gordon 75 0 0 6 17 6
our intertainment there
being 2 diners 2 breck-
fasts and 2 suppers
payd by Gorden . 96 15 0
Lyden.
June 12. For diner and super
and wine the maids 8 8 16 0
13. the maids 8, we dining
in Mr. Burnets . .080
Smalls by John for breck-
fast and suppers . 1 14 0
4 8 4
0 8 1
1 13 0
0 2 11
6 0 0
0 11 0
8 17
3
0 16
0
0 0
8
0 3
0
gdr. St. doit.
£ s. d.
16 0
0 2 4
14 0
0 2 2
3 7
0
0
6
1
2 16
0
0
5
0
14 0
0
1
5
8
3 0
0
0
5
6
0 11
0
0
0
11
13 16
0
1
5
2
12 0
0
1
2
0
731] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 811
[Foreign Tour]
For sugar for Tea at 8|
St. 3| lb.
For washing Roterdam .
For entertainment in 3
days . . . 33 0 0 3 0 6
jeyden For milk at a Bours
une 15. house . . . 0 13 0 0 1 1
For bagage Ig. 7st. more
2g
For a coach 2g. 16st.
16. For lodging a week at
Lyden
To Frederick, etc. .
To a man for errands
For 6 lb. chocalet .
For a lb. Tea
For lodging 2 nights at
Edwards errour in
Roterdam this is set
down befor.
For a Scout from Liden
to harlem for the roof
and 6 and 4 servants in
Scout . . . 6 6 2 0 11
mster- For scout harlem to Am-
am June sterdam
3 For bagage .
For tape at Harlem errour
For a guid .
For a coach .
For a coach .
For bagage .
For lodging and inter-
tainment 3 nights . 64 16 0 518 8
For a scout to utright
the whole of it which
was devided 20 gul.
and drink . . 15 9 0 18 3
3 15
0
0
6 9
2 6
0
0
4 2
0 6
0
0
0 6
3 6
0
0
6 0
3 5
0
0
5 11
1 12
0
0
2 10
47
5
0
4 6
7
5
0
0
0 9
2
9
0
0
0 16
6
S12 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour]
gdr. St. doit. £ s. d. j
For diner at Newer Sluce
of fish . . . 24 0 0 2 4 0
Utright
June 20. For 4 lb. coffie powder
32 St. and box 18st. . 7 6 0 0 13 4
a lb. Tea Bohea from
Lord Bins landlord . 6 10 0 0 11 10
2 pair gloves Grisie and
I errour
For lodging and entertain-
ment at the Castel of
Antwerp. 3 nights
For a coach to Syst
For a coach to Sousdick-
Gildermause
For diner to 6 of
us and 2 maids 3 11
Servant : . . 0 12
4 3 0 0 7 7
For 2 Post wagon to the
Buss to the wagennears 40 0 0
To servants at Utright .
To the wageneer .
For smalls by James
Buss 25. For lodging and inter-
tainment 3 nights at
the golden Lyon
To servants .
To a sergent 11 st. soger
OoL* • • • •
For a Berline to
Mostrick:. . 40 0
2 Post wagons . 50 0
bagage . .55
Commissers Knight 11
40 0
0
3
13
4
2 10
0
0
4
6
0 12
0
0
1
0
3 4
4
0
5
11
32 15
0
3
0
0
1 2
0
0
2
0
0 17
0
0
1
5
Wageneers . .18
97 4 0 8 18 2
I73I]
[Foreign Tour]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
For diner at Lumpt 4 18
Overbeck a night. 6 5
maid . . .06
bree for breckfast 1 6
Diner At Ass . 4 10
313
gdr. St. doit. £ s. d.
17 5 0 1 11 7
741 12 2 67 14 5
Mostrick a guiny is 27 Skillins,^ and each skillin
10 Marks, and each Mark 6 doits.
Stff.
June 27 For lodging and super
Sk.
M.
d.
£
s.
d.
and breckfast
36
0
0
1
1
0
Servants
1
0
0
0
0
7
For a berline to Aix
32
0
0
0
18
8
For 2 Diligances to Aix .
45
0
0
1
6
3
For baggage .
4
0
0
0
2
4
To the Wagennears
3
0
0
0
1
9
To a soger to forbear
serching
1
0
0
0
0
7
9 Marks is For Diner at Gulph
21
0
0
0
12
3
a skillin To a wageneer
1
0
0
0
0
7
at Aix To the 3 servants boord
21 days to 27 June
111
0
0
3
4
9
30 To accounts from John of
Smalls for breckfasts
and supers .
27
0
0
0
15
9
To smalls by John and
James
7
3
0
0
4
3
To clear house accounts
pd. John .
15
8
4
0
9
2
June 9 To clear house accounts
more at Aix
22
8
6
0
13
3
^ This should be thirty-seven skillings, and is so given elsewhere.
314
4 THE HOUSEHOLD
BOC
)K
[1733^
[Foreign Tour]
[Stg.]
To sundry smalls for
Sk.
M.
d.
£ s. d.
house I bought .
31
8
4
0 18 6
For diners 11 days and 2
skillins a head .
195
0
0
5 13 9
cooks maid .
]
0
0
0 0 7
to see the relicks in great
church
17
0
0
0 9 11
a coach
6
0
0
0 3 6
For 12 nights lodging in
Mr. Tewis house
168
0
0
4 18 0
the maid in the house .
8
0
0
0 4 8
coffie ....
1
4
4
0 0 10
For a Berline and 2
waggons to Spa .
88
0
0
2 11 4
3 wagonneers
3
0
0
0 19
1 850 4 0 24 14 0
Spa.
here the guiny is 37 skill and 4 souse, a skillin 10 sous,
and a sous 4 Hers
stg.
sk.
St.
doits.
£ s. d.
July 9 To John
78
8
0
2 5 11
13 To John
74
8
0
2 3 7
For wood, etc.
13
0
0
0 7 7
To house
5
0
0
0 2 11
To a Copashin
1
0
0
0 0 7
For a water bottle
1
0
0
0 0 7
20 To John .
•
. 37
4
0
1 1 10
23 To John
•
. 81
16
0
2 8 2
Spa.
S. 293 6 0 8 11 2
This is Lievers, sous, etc.
French Stg.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
July 25 To John . . . 12 0 0 0 13 4
' This column is wrongly summed. It should be 847 Sk. 4 M.
7 0
0
0
7
10
18 14
0
1
1
0
18 14
0
1
1
0
0 10
0
0
0
7
18 14
0
1
1
0
18 14
0
1
1
0
18 14
0
1
1
0
37 8
0
2
2
0
731] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 315
[Foreign Tour] [French] [Stg.]
To make up a former £ s. d. £ s. d.
balance . . . 0 13 0 0 0 9
For powder lib to
day 20 a wash ball 7d. 17 0 0 16
26 To Lady Fannys car-
nush [?] .
To John
30 To John
To Neckles Grisie and
Mrs. Burnet
To poor pilgrims 1 sk.
Aug* 1 For John
To John
2 To John
To John
^londay 6 For a moneths Lodging
9 rooms and a kit-
chen and 2 beds for
men servants, 14 sk.
p. week, 10| guinys
and 6 sk. and 3 liers .
7 To John
To John was forgot to
set down .
9 To John
For letters .
13 To John
20 For 2 wagons at 3 sk. a-
piece for 37 days to
this and 2 days riding 110 10
Augt 20 To John
22 To John 4 guinys
For the Buckie to the ball
Lug. 25 For 12 doz. botls water
O.S. to Mr. Cockburn
To Roclor for the Ball
and Super to 70
persons . . . 196 7 0 11 0 11
196
0
0
11
0
6
18
14
0
1
1
0
37
8
0
2
2
0
37
8
0
2
2
0
3
5
0
0
3
8
37
8
0
2
2
0
110
10
0
6
4
4
37
8
0
2
2
0
74
16
0
4
4
0
11
0
0
0
12
0
316
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731
[Foreign Tour'
[F
rench]
[Stg.]
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
To John
37
8
0
2
2
0
To John
18
14
0
1
1
0
To John
30
12
0
1
14
5
To the fidels at the ball
28
1
0
1
11
6
Wednes- For bread etc. by John
day 28 To a cook at 1 sk p"" day
49 days .
24
15
0
1
7
10
For 3 weeks lodging to
Monday 27
147
' 0
0
8
5
4
To John at 3 times 3
guinys
56
2
0
3
3
0
For a weeks lodging the
Sunday 31 Sept.^
49
0
0
2
15
1
For a chaise to the 1st
of Sep. and horses
35
10
0
2
0
0
Septm 3 To John to the 10
74
16
0
4
4
0
and 10 For Arrack and Limons
10
0
0
0
11
3
Washing to Saterday 8
2 weeks .
8
13
0
0
9
9
2 french caps Mrs.
Twiles at Aix .
6
18
0
0
7
9
11 To John
37
8
0
2
2
0
12 To John
37
8
0
2
2
0
For 12 nights lodging to
Saturday 15 at 12 skill
72
0
0
4
1
0
To the Caposhins
37
8
0
2
2
0
To the wemen at Ger-
onster Pohon .
18
14
0
1
1
0
To the wemen at Pohon
in Toun .
8
0
0
0
9
0
Friday 14 To the cook for 10 days
8
10
0
0
9
7
To the housemaid Ann
Mary Nort Livoux,
daughter of our land-
lord
9
7
0
0
10
6
* Probably a mistake for ist September.
I73I]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
3ir
Foreign Tour]
[F
rench^
[Stg.]
For a wanscote chest £
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
and lock .
•
6
0
0
0
6
9
Saturday 15,
we went
to Leige For a chaise 12
days
. 35
10
0
2
10
0
16 For the last weeks wash
8 frank .
,
8
0
0
0
9
0
For Kains the half
37
8
0
2
2
0
For a p^ shoes my D.
5
0
0
0
5
7
mending shoes
•
1
0
0
0
1
1|
2 pr clogs .
.
8
10
0
0
9
7
letters
.
8
15
0
0
9
10
Apoticary's bill
•
1
13
0
0
0
14
7
1038
6
0
60
19
4i
taken out of
this washing
8 13 (
)
washing
8 0 (
)
shoes my D
5 0 (
)
mending shoes
1 0 (
)
2 pr Cloggs G
and I
8 10 (
S.
) 31
3
0
1007
3
0
Leige.
17 Sepm For 1 lb. Tee
•
7
10
0
0
8
5
To 54j broad
hollanc
I
for 3 pr shiets at 3^
)
Sturs the ell
•
94
10
0
5
6
4
For 34| demie
hollanc
I
at 45 Sturs for 7 Shift
s
to Grisie .
,
77
12
2
4
7
4
5 els Muslin for 4 cravat
3
45 St.
•
11
5
0
0
12
3
2 night napkins
•
5
6
1
0
5
11
196
3
3
11
0
3
' This column is wrongly summed by Lady Grisell.
318 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour] [French] [Stg.]
take out the demi hoi- £ s. d. £ s. d.
land muslin and night
caps . . . 94 3 3 5 5 11
S. 102 102 00 00 5 14 4
For 2 chases
from Spa to
Leige that
caried 8
persons . 28 0 0 1 11 6
A wagon for 2
servants and
bagog . 12 0 0 0 13 6
a horse to a
servant . 4 0 0
44 0 0 0 4 6
To drink money to
Chaises . . . 1 0 0 0 1 If
To the poor . . 1 10 0 0 1 9
19 Sep. For diner at Barixpay 7
masters 5 servants . 14 10 0 0 16 4
For a kain to Charles
Forbes 3 guinys . 56 2 0 3 3 0
pay^ his horse from
Spa . . . . 5 0 0 0 5 7|
For 5 Nights at the Altas
Noble to Msr Pontels 250 0 0 14 1 3
makeing 4 p^ shiets . 3 0 0 0 3 4|
a blunderbush 2 guin. 2
pr pistols 2 gu. . 74 16 0 4 4 0
Namour.
For 2 Berlins
from Leige 80 0 0
a horse to a
servant . 5 0 0
85 0 0 4 15 8
To Lodging and supers
for 4 nights for we
731]
OF lADY GRISELL BAILLIE
319
Foreig
'11 Tour^
[F]
-one
•h]
[Stg.
dined mostly in the
£
s.
d.
£
s.
d.
Bishops .
96
3
0
5
8
2
To the Bishops Servants
45
8
0
2
11
0
For 2 Berlins and a Rid-
ing horse from Namure
to Shalong 39 guinys
15 the riding horse was
5 of it
748
6
2
42
1
10
Seeing the Castle of
Namure .
11
0
0
0
12
5
For bread etc. by John .
2
2
0
0
2
4
flay at Rosey
upon Stra 8 00
0
9
0
fDind at Ritch-
mount . 12 0
0
13
6
For Diner at
erriton . 4 10
0
5
1
Super at Mash 6 0
0
6
9
Diner at Runion 4 10
0
5
1
Super at Bostogne 9 0
0
10
1
Diner at Mark-
lange . 5 0
0
5
7|
Super at Arlong
impos^ on 16
0
18
0
Diner at Luxen-
burg . 12 0
0
13
6
fthe 2 above
'^rirMi iH r»r^ noTr^
77
0
0
S. 1
616
17
2
90
18
4
Sup<i at Carmine,
the first village
in Lorain and
here the Lewi-
dors^ is 32 livers 6 10
4
4
0
^ Lady Grisell seems to use • Lewis dors ' as synonymous to ' guiny,' and the
ilculations are based on this assumption.
320
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731^
[Foreign Tour] [French]
28 breckf ast at Pont- £ s. d.
mush . 3 10
lay and sup^ at
Nancy . 32 0
wine upon the road 1 10
29 dind at Roviell 6 0
30 Sup<i at Lunavile 20 0
lay at Mercour 15 10
Oct. 1 Din at Alunavile 7 0
lay at Ish . 7 15
Coshers for going
out of the road
3 leigs to Luna-
vile . 48 0
Seeing the Duke
of Lorains Palice
and the Acad-
amie . 21 0
168 15 0
Oct. 2
here the Lewidor is 24 livers
For diner at Jussie
in Burgundy
biskets etc.
lay at Doncour
Chato a private
house and left
the servants
Dind at Dampier
lay at Champain
in the Dutche
of Burgundy
was serched here
overly and gote
a pass gave the
men
breckfast at Ark- '
surtiel
6
4
10
7
15
4
12
7
7 10
3 2
3 0
[Stg.]
£ s. d.
0 2 4
1 1
0 1
0 4
0 13
0 10
0 4
0 5
4
0
0
4
4
8
2
1 12 0
0
14
0
5
12
6
Sterling
0
5
8
0
3
10
0 13 8
0 3 10
0 6 7
0 2 8
2 7
31] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 321
[Foreign Tour]
stg.
[French]
£ s. d.
lay at Dijon 24
0
110
Cyrop copilair ^
suger, etc. 4
15
0 4 2
Maid at Dijon 1
4
Oil
5 Dind at Nuys 10
0
0 8 9
lay at Beaune 11
0
0 9 7
6 Dind and lay at
Shalong up
Soan . 33
0
1 8 10
servants twise
paid . 3
0
0 2 7
was stopd at
Shalong 3 days
by the imper-
tinance of the
Bourro and paid
lodging, etc 24
14
117
A chase post for
L^ Bin and my
Dear to Lyons 160
0
361
1
0
7 0 0
4 servants in the Dili-
gence to lyons .
•
48
0
0
2 2 0
4 trunks 12£ caring
out
and in 8£ .
•
20
0
0
0 17 6
their supers at Macom 3£
boat men 30st.
•
4
10
0
0 3 11
Oct. 9 For 5 places in the Dili-
gence upon the Soan in
2 days from Shalon to
Lyon us 4 women
and
a footman
•
60
0
0
2 12 6
lay at Macom for super
6
0
0
0 5 3
^ Capillaire. a syrup extracted from the maiden-hair fern ; a simple syrup
avoureii with orange-flower water.
X
322 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour
<
Stg.
French
£
s.
d.
11
Dind at Roiotin .
•
5 12
0
0
4
11
a coach at Lyons 3 hours
3 16
0
0
3
5
letters 12£newl£
«
13 0
0
0
11
5
Lyon
For Lodging, au
guinys strl Park and enter-
24
tainment 6
Livres.
nights . 230
0
10
1
3
12
3 lb. chocolet
10
15
0
8
5
2 bottles Genever
1
8
0
1
3
Suger and other
smalls graps etc.
6
10
0
5
8
Serchers
1
10
0
1
4
a clogbag a lewi-
dor and 24 sous
25
4
1
2
1
a clogbag lock
10
0
0
5
2 Maps
3
0
0
2
7
harden bags
0
6
0
0
3
wax cloath to
trunks
2
17
0
2
6
a pillow and cover
5
10
0
4
10
mending clogbags
1
10
0
1
4
phisick bag 10s,
Bowers Bag 4£
18 ft.
5
08
0
4
9
a chocalet pot
9
0
0
7
10
303 8 0
Oct. 23 For caring 6 chairs over
the Alps cald Munt
Sines to men to drink 12 0 0 0 10 6
Sundry things layd
out by Bower
for Gibson when
sick . 8 11 0 7 9
For 4 chases and a sadle
horse from Lyon to
Turin giveing as din-
ner and super and car-
31] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 323
[Foreign Tour] Stg.
ing us over the Alps, [French] £ s. d.
40 Lewidors . . 960 0 0 42 0 0
to the Camariers from
Lyons to Turin . 8 15 0 0 7 8
Serchers the Duan at
Novalies . . .200019
^1779 13 0 77 9 6
the sequin is 9 livers 10 St. here
r31, Turin
3et. 27 For coaches at 8 Livers
a day . . . 28 10 0 1 11 8
Persico and other waters 6 15 0 0 7 6
Seeing Palices and other
places . . . 33 0 0 1 16 8
La Boundanc the foot-
mat [sic] 30 st. p. day
and something to drink 7 10 0 0 8 4
opera tickets . . 12 0 0 0 13 6
Mr. Banker at
Turin Commission for
200£ . . . 37 10 0 2 1 8
Lodging and entertain-
ment 5 nights and 4
day at Turin . . 229 13 0 12 15 2
For drink money
upon the road
la}^ at Syany 1 0
30 dind at Versiles 15
lay at Navar 1 0
Serchers at Bourg-
deversail . 2 10
(not summed into account)
For 4 chases and a
sadle horse from
^ Wrongly summed by Lady Griscll.
324
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731
[Foreign Tour
Stg.
Turin to Rom
£
s.
d.
in twenty dajs
with 2 mails a
day 180 sequins 1710
95
0
0
the Coshers to .
drink 4 . 38 1748 0
0
2
2
3
6 geografical maps 18 0
0
1
0
0
2120 18
0
117
16
9
Millan, 1 November 1731
a sequin here is 14 livers
For seeing Ecco 4 10
0
8
5
Tomb . 4 0
0
3
0
Palaces, Liberrary
Hospitall in all 20 0
0
15
0
2 days 2 coaches 36 15
1
7
7
Bourgon footman 4 10
0
3
5
Lantron . 1 0
0
0
9
Cinamon water 1 14
0
1
4
the Countes of
Borameas ser-
vant brought
us chocolet
Servant St. Ber
nardo
3 Nights Lodging
and entertain
ment
a footman .
Plasentia here a sequin is 20 Julios
For seing Churches
Palices etc. . . 18 0 0 0 9 5
Camarier . . .400021
2 5
0
1 9
0 15
0
0 8
108 5
4
1 2
8 0
0
0
6 0
191 14
7
3 10
22 0 0 0 11
731]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
325
[Foreign Tour]
Parma, here and in all Italy where we went till we came
o Naples a sequin is 20 and sometimes 20| Pol or Julios
0 byoks is a Poul.
Stg.
£
s.
d.
carred over
22 0 0
0
11
6
For diner at
Parma . 28
0
0
14
7
The 5 servants 7
5
0
3
10
Milk . . 5
0
0
2
7
Tobaco . 3
0
0
1
7
wine . . 5
0
0
2
7
finding books was
lost . 6
0
0
3
2
a woman in Regio 4
0
0
2
1
serchers . . 1
0
0
0
6
frute . . 1
0
0
0
6
(name Sending to Mr.
erased)
0
5
61 0 0
0
0
2
To Gosolas ser-
vant . 3
0
0
1
7
galary
5
0
0
2
7
Theater
4
0
0
2
1
Palaces
12
0
0
6
3
Coachman
5
0
0
2
7
footman
4
0
0
2
1
camarier
2
0
0
1
0
iggie For seeng Palaces 3
0
0
1
7
more . , 3
0
0
1
7
camaries . . 3
Ddena
0
44 0 0
0
1
7
For seeing Paleses 10
0
0
5
2
footman . . 3
0
0
1
7
Passage gilt
Severals .
13
0
0
6
9
326 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour] Stg.
£ s. d.
Camarrir . 2 0 0 10
28
Bulonia
10 Nov, For sasageses 22 10 0 11 9
a Scots pint of
waters
12
0
wax cloth to
trunks
8
0
bad brandy
6
0
Tobaco
2
0
Messages to
Dulioly .
books
1
6
0
0
2 gramers .
Duan sercher
6
2
0
0
seing palaces
seing institute
Coledge
Coches
19
5
3
58
0
0
0
0
footman
9
0
Lodging and
entertainment
102
0
Camarier
5
0
0 6 3
0
4
2
0
3
2
0
1
0
0
0
6
0
3
2
0
3
2
0
1
0
0
9
11
0
2
7
0
1
7
1
10
3
0
4
9
0 2 7
266 10 0 2 13 2
Loretta
16 For lodging only
12
0
0
6
3
fish
3
5
0
1
9
Seing St. Casa
6
0
0
3
2
Seeing Treasurs
6
0
0
3
2
a footman .
2
0
0
1
0
to a woman
Pilgram .
1
0
0
0
6
731] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 327
Foreign Tour
Stg.
a guid to Cascad
£
s. d.
at Teriiy .
3
0
0
1 7
33 o 0
To Camariers upon
the road
17 Dind at Matcher-
S'td' • •
1
5
0
0 8
lay at Toranteens
1
5
0
0 8
18 Dind Ponta de
latravo
2
0
0
1 0
lay at Seravala
1
5
0
0 8
19 Dind at Foligna
1
0
0
0 6
lay at Spoletta
1
5
0
0 8
Dind and lay at
Terne
2
0
0
1 0
Suger plumbs and
frute
4
8
0
2 4
Dind at Narni
1
0
0
0 6
lay at Uticoly
1
0
0
0 6
a Prist at Narni
to see reliks
3
0
0
1 7
Dind at Chevita
costelata .
1
5
0
0 8
lay at Castle Nov
1
0
0
0 6
1
0
0
0 6
1
5
0
0 8
1
0 24 18 0
0
0 6
479 3 0
12
9 10
We came to Rome the 23 Novmr at one a clock of the
day 1731, here a sequin is still 20 Julios or Pols in some
payments | poul more, a sequin is 2 Phillips, there is half
phillips and quater phillips which is 2 and a half Poul. A
Powl is 10 byocks, there is half and quarter pouls and 5
quotrins for a byock.
alios
by.
q-
1
0
0
0
0
6
6
0
0
0
3
2
5
5
0
0
2
9
20
0
0
0
10
5
3
0
0
0
1
7
3
0
0
0
1
7
328 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour]
Rome, 23 Novmi-, 173. Stg.
For passage at the
bridge
Duan serching bagage
overly
At the Port for bagage
Mrs. Gotten a sequin
Mr. Hays man for wine
wax candle .
a hamper and cords for
wine . . .490024
Suger at 16 byocks the
Yb 8 5 0 0 4 4
Coaches at 12 pouls p^.
day . . . 144 0 0 3 15 0
Lodging and entertain-
ment 3 times a day ex-
cept Tee and suger for
8 days 3 sequins a day
at 20 Julios, in all 24
sequins . . . 480 0 0 12 10 0
to the cook 2
testoun . 6 0
0
3
to the camarier 3 0
0
1
to the maid a
testoun . 3 0
0
1
12
0
0
to vincent the footman
27
0
0
0
14
L^ M I's servant
6
0
0
0
3
Sir Thomas Derhams
servant .
6
0
0
0
3
Mr. Hays servant
6
0
0
0
3
Countes Bolanetis Ser-
vants
6
0
0
0
3
Corsini the Pops
Nephews servants
6
0
0
0
3
Prince St. Abonys ser-
vants
6
0
0
0
3
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
329
Foreign Tour
Stg
Books of Travel?^
> Mr.
.Fiilios hy. t|.
Elphistoii
•
33 0 0
0
17
2
For seeing Mo-
saickwork
3
0
0
1
7
Bustas
1
0
0
0
6
St. Chorls Church
1
0
0
0
6
villa Borghese
4
0
0
2
1
Borghese Palice
3
0
0
1
7
Farnesi Palic
3
0
0
1
7
the famous Bull
there
1
0
0
0
6
Pamphili Palic
3
0
0
1
7
Barberini Palice
6
0
0
3
2
Justiniani Palic
3
0
0
1
7
the Vatican .
4
0
0
2
1
Villa Pamphili
Pal .
4
0
0
2
1
seting up coach
ther
6
0
0
3
2
the Amphitheater
1
0
0
0
6
Collona Palic
3
0
0
1
7
For entering the
■
Kingdom of
Naples
1
0
0
0
6
Mala Duan .
4
0
0
2
1
Naples Duan
5
0
56 0 0
0
2
7
ecm 5 For 4 Chases by the Pi
■o-
catcho and a
sadle
horse from Rom
to
Naples in 5 day?
i \vi
th
2 Mails a day -
26 !
iC-
;
quins and 2 to drink
560 0 0
14
10
8
S 1398 19 0 36 8 2
330 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
15 9 4
£
s.
d.
0
2
11
0
2
7
0
2
0
0
1
2
0
0
9
0
0
3
[Foreign Tour]
Naples, Wedensdav, 5 Dec^ N.S., 1731.
Stg
For 2 Doz Naples D. c. g.
chena plats 7 2 0
6 basket chamber
pots . 0 6 4
5 water basons 0 5 0
6 Chamber ston
pots . 0 6 0 0 2 5
8 earthen pots
kitchen . 0 7 2 0 2 11
3 Kitchen pots
more . 0 3 0
a big water jar 0 18
2 sauce pans 0 0 6
2 big blew and
white bonis 0 3 8 0 16
6 Tee cups 10
Coffie cups and
saucers and 4
little bouls 2 5 0 0 10 0
6 Ivery Knives
and forks 3 8 0 0 15 2
2 Tee pots . 0 19 0 0 9
a boyling and 2
washing basons 3 8 0 0 16
12 cristal wine
glases . 14 0 0 5 7
12 slight wine
glases . 0 2 4
2 cruits . 0 2 4
10 water glayses 0 8 0
12 small carafs 14 4
4^ Doz. wine
flasks
2 salet Dishes
a Tee pot .
I
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
3
2
0
5
9
0
2
1
0
1
0
0
0
3
I
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
331
Foreign ToiirJ
Mr. Douglasses man's
service
Cleaning the house
Stg.
D. c.
S-
£ s.
d.
2 8
0
0 11
2
0 9
9
0 3
9
19 7
3
3 18
9
19 IT
3
3 18
9
For 33 1 can Hag-
abag for 5 doz.
Tee napkins
fringd . 23 2 5
4 doz. hagabag
napkins 7 ca. 20 3 0
4 can hagabag 2
tablecloths 2 8 0
32 Napens and 4
Table cloaths
of German
Dyaper . 35 0 0
3 Naples Dyaper
Tablecloths 8 5 0
some second
hand linen 16 8 0
4 Ian towels finer 2 8 5
109 2 0
To Francisko foot-
mans wage . 8 7 0
Cooks wages at
6D. pr mo. 14 1 0
Fransiska the
maid 15 car-
lins pr Moneth
to her . 0 0 0
4 13 0
4 12
0 11 2
7 0 0
1 14 0
3 7 2
0 11 4
1 14 9
2 16 5
0 2 5
23 4 0
1731 For house rent a moneth
nuary 28 to this day . . 40 0 0
8 0 0
332 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1732
Febr4
1 Tour]
D.
c.
g-
(
k
£
Stg.
s.
d.
making a Chimny
For coach and horses
a
5
0
0
1
0
0
Moneth to 6 Jan''.
,
40
0
0
8
0
0
For coaches to see Presa-
pias, etc. .
For a Millan Chase
•
•
3
52
3
5
0
0
0
10
13
10
2
0
To Saverios child 2
C.
taylor 2 Car.
•
0
4
0
0
1
7
For mending smokie
chimny .
To a cook .
•
5
0
5
8
0
0
1
0
2
3
0
2
To Fransisca the maid
of wages .
To Saverio of wages
•
at
0
8
0
0
3
2
lOD. pr Month
•
14
0
0
2
16
0
To the french cook
at
7D. pr. Month .
•
2
0
0
0
8
0
For the coach
a
]Moneth
,
40
0
0
8
0
0
For House Rent a
moneth the
,
40
0
0
8
0
0
For letters .
•
2
2
0
0
8
10
For cariing Chease
Rome
to
•
2
0
0
0
8
0
For two Millan chases
•
91
0
0
IS
> 4
0
For bringing home the
chases
0
6
0
0
2
5
For glasses .
,
0
8
0
0
3
2
For a Coach to see Presa-
pias, etc. .
For a Balcony to see the
1
2
0
0
4
10
car .
a
4
0
0
0
16
0
For a Lodge at the opera
a night
For 2 trunks
3
5
0
0
0
0
0
1
12
0
0
0
To St. Francis Church
0
2
0
0
0
10
To Saverio of wages
•
8
0
0
1
12
0
2]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
333
rch 6
Foreign Tour]
To the French cook John
of wages .
To Francesca maid in full
of 3 moneth wages
27 For a moneth and a half
house Rent to the 12
of March .
For the coach a moneth
this day .
For making 30 ft.
chocalet in house book
24 pound coco
nuts . 9 6 0
14 pound powder
18 0
6 6 6
0 5 3
18 5 9
suger
4 ounces vinellas
4 oun cinamon
D.
7
c.
0
0
Stg.
£ s. d
1 8
0
3 10 0 12 5
60 0 0 12 0 0
40 0 0 8 0 0
1 18 5
0
7
2
1
6
8
0
2
2
Dies
From Day house Books
from 5 Dec"i 1731 to
the 1st March 1732
N.S. . . . 603 9 1 120 15 7
ip. 14 For House Rent a moneth 40 0 0 8 0 0
For Saverias wages
10
0
0
2
0
0
The Cook a moneths
wages
7
0
0
1
8
0
To Francisco a moneths
wages
1
5
0
0
6
0
To Nicola the Boy a
moneth .
1
5
0
0
6
0
To the Cook at Soriento
of his wages
1
0
0
0
4
0
For 95 Can gas at 22 and
24 g. for beds .
21
2
0
4
4
10
To Nicolla in full wages
0
2
0
0
0
10
/ 1
334
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[173:
[Foreign Tour]
Stg
For 3 chases to Putsola
D.
c.
g-
£
s.
d.
and Bara, etc. .
3
9
0
0
15
7
For expenses at Xeros
Baths, etc.
6
1
0
1
4
5
To the Chasemen
0
6
0
0
2
5
30 For House Rent to this
day
26
0
0
5
4
0
For a coach and 2 horses
2 jNIoneths
80
0
0
16
0
0
For 20 packs of cards .
2
2
0
0
8
10
For 3 chases to Castle
j\Iarc
6
0
0
1
4
0
To the Chase men
0
6
0
0
2
5
To French Cook a
moneths wages
7
0
0
1
8
0
May 2
To Saverio a moneth
*
this day .
10
0
0
2
0
0
10
To Francisco the Maid a
moneth .
1
0
0
0
6
0
To Nicol cook boy a
moneth and 2 days .
1
7
0
0
6
10
25
To Francisco cook bov
28 days .
1
4
0
0
5
8
11448 0 4 291 13 2
Naples.
The Furnitui
•e for our
House
i
At Portiche and removing
1
^lay 3
For Naples
1732
3 Doz Plates
116
0
4
8
2 soup basons
0 7 0
0
2
10
3 Dishes
0 8 0
0
3
2
2 Dishes
0 5 0
0
2
0
a boul 1 caraf
0 14
0
0
7
12 Jelly glases
0 7 2
0
2
9
' This summation should be 1458 o 4.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
335
Foreign Tour]
12 Earthen
Candlesticks 0 6 0
6 pr. snuffers 0 6 6
36 white Avicker
chairs at 15
grains the peace 5 4 0
3 can bedin to
D. c. g.
Stg.
£ s. d.
0 2 5
0 2 8
117
cookboy . 0
a looking glas 1
6
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
5
0
yron grate to
stove hal . 0
6
4
0
2
7
Nails . . 0
1
0
13
0
2
0
0
o
Serching our
goods at Duan 1
ffelucas with goods
3
0
0
5
2
and ourselves 5
3
0
1
1
2
Whiting the
house . 3
O
0
0
14
0
Cleaning house 0
8
0
0
3
2
chases with ser-
vants . 2
5
0
13
4
0
0
10
0
nails 4g
4
0
0
4
0
0
2
Porters for caring goods
Coper pots 17 qrtt
yron things, spits, etc
8
8
5
6
0
0
1
8
1
1
0
14
14
8
0
5
4
To Saveria a months
wages to this day . 10 0 0 2 0 0
To cook a moneths wages
to this day . .700180
To Francisco cook in full
this day . . .030012
336 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1732
1 Tour]
To washing table linen
For 32 can cords
D.
0
c.
8
0
£
0
stg
s.
3
d.
2
to beds
10 7
0
4
3
80 yron rings
2 ounces scarlet
0 2 2
0
0
11
silk
Taylor 10 days
0 6 0
4 0 0
0
0
2
16
5
0
more rings, etc.,
to beds
0 3 1
0
1
3
632 11
7 126 12
8
5 0
0 10
0
0 6
0 0 2
5
6 2 0
30 To-daybook from the 1st
March to the 1st of
July being 4 moneths
To hear Carastin ^ sing .
Augt. 16 To cary a bed to Naples
For the coach to
Angelo . 36 0 7 4 0
For the coach to
1 Augt. 7w. 54 0 10 16 0
90 0 0
To the vanditor 4
Moneth 1
Septmi-. . 53 00 53 3 4 10 13 5
To Mr. Saveria of
wages . 12 50 2 10 0
To the cook 2 ms.
2 Aug. . 14 00 2 16 0
Francisco Maid 2
August 3 m. 4 50 0 18 0
To Frances Kit-
chen boy . 2 50 0 10 0
Giovanni Carestini, born about 1705. ' His voice, at first a powerful clear
soprano, afterwards changed to the fullest, finest, deepest contralto ever perhaps
heard.' — Groves's Dictionary of Music, etc. Carestini made his debut in London
under Handel on 4th December 1733. He was a tall, handsome man, and a
very good actor.
J732] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 337
[Foreign Tour] Stg.
To Joseph Kit- d. c. g. £ s. d.
chen boy 10 Aug. 3 50 0 14 0
To Lowrenc a
Month 22 Aug. 5 00 10 0
42
0
0
To Indian rute
•
0
5
0
0 2
0
Portice
Octr2 To the Cook 2
moneth 2d. Oct. 14
0
2 16
0
22 To Lorensine to
this day 2 mo. 10
0
2 0
0
ToMushet . 5
0
1 0
0
To Francisco the
maid to 18 Octr. 8
0
0 12
0
To Joseph cook
boy to 10 Novr 6
0
1 4
0
To Frances coach-
man . 1
0
0 4
0
39 0 0
To Nicola Gove-
gho, coach 1 Mo.
hire . . . 36 0 0 7 4 a
To Guis^ Attanassio on
acct. of house rent .100 0 0 20 0 0
To Notaro di Roma pr
the Pohcy . .^100 040
For the coach a Moneth
by Toriano . . 36 0 0 7 4 0
For coach horses to 1st
November from Angelo
viti a moneth . . 36 0 0 7 4 0
To venditor
at the 1st November
for 2 monthes . . 26 6 0 5 6 5
For carts at 4| car-
lins with goods
Y
338 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1735
[Foreign Tour]
Stg.
d. c. g.
£
s. d.
from Portice to
Naples
5
75
1
2 HI
porters 2 carl.
each cart
1
80
0
7 2i
to drink
0
30
0
1 3^
Birris at Bridge
several times
1
0
0
4 or
caring more good
2
40
0
9 7:
bring a press
0
25
0
1 0(
puting up Da-
mask curtins
0
30
0
1 3
a cloath to cover
the carts .
0
30
12 1 0
0
1 3
For abed at Mr. Temples 12 0
0
4 10
Naples
Nov. 15 For a tee boord
1
0
0
4 0
1732 a hagabag table-
cloathe
1
70
0
6 10
12 rush chairs
1
80
0
7 3
a coper pot 24 gr
ounce
1
56
0
6 3
2 doz. Tee Nap-
kins
7
20
1
8 10
4 can hagabag 7
Carlins
2
80
0
11 2
16 0 6
To ventitor in
pairt of 100 Ducats
for 6 moneth begin-
ning the 1st. of Nov'"
1732 . . . 20 0 0 4 0 0
To Caposhins and Saints
Pictors .. .. .080 032
For our coach from Angelo
for the moneth of Nov^ 36 0 0 7 4 C
1
733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 389
[Foreign Tour] Stg.
d. c. g. £ s. d.
To cooks wage to
2 Deer . 14 0 2 16 0
To Lorrance to
22 Nov^ . 5 0 10 0
To Joseph under
cook in full 4 0 0 16 0
Fransisco Maid to
18 Novr. . 1 50 0 6 0
For 2 hatts to
John and James 2 40 0 9 7
To Calabria a
moneth 15 Dec^ 2 0 0 8 0
28 9 0
To Cap* Piels ships crew 2 7 0 0 10 10
To horses to the Consols
coach etc . 14 0 0 5 7
jFriday 14 For chair men etc. . 12 0 0 4 10
we came To Caposhins . . 0 4 0 0 17
toNaplesFrom Day House Book
from 1st July to the
1st Decem^'^ being 5
Moneths . . . 765 0 7 153 0 3
1733
To cooks wages to D. C. gr.
2 January 7 0 18 0
To Lowrencon to
2 ms. 22 Janr. 12 0 2 8 0
To Calabria cook
boy full . 1 50 0 6 0
To Francisco Maid
to 18 Jan^. 3 0 0 12 0
To a Cook Xmas
daj . . 2 0 0 8 0
25 5 0
To Angelo for
840 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foreign Tour]
2 Moneths to the 1st d. c. g. £ s. d.
Febr. . . . 72 0 0 14 8 0
To the vanditor in pairt
of 100 Dt for 6 moneth
which is not full 17 D*
p^ moneth and this
maks 60 Dt^. .
For bringing cheases
from Hammons
To Prests . 0 50
old shiets . 2 50
James bedin in
ship . 6 32 15 4
custom house for
40
0
0
8 0 0
0
3
0
0 13
0 2 0
0 10 0
trunks . 3 95
0
15
10
rubarb . 2 55
15
8
2
0
10
2
For repairing cheases .
1
2
0
0
4
10
teh^2
To Mark Cook boy to 6
feb. 1 mo.
1
5
0
0
6
0
To House Book in
Decmr 1732
165
7
8|
33
3
1
To D'^ Guiseppe Atten-
assio on account of
house Rent
50
0
0
10
0
0
For lock and repairs at
Portice
4
8
6
0
19
5
Naples
1733
March 26 To the venditor in
full for Moneths 5
20
0
0
4
0
0
For our coach 1
March . 36 0
7
4
0
Ditt to the 27
March . 30 0
6
0
0
66 0 0
To Portice House Rent
for a year . . 170 0 0 34 0 0
1733]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
341
[Foreign Tour]
To the house at Naples
in full of 200 D
For letters by Hammons
aco** in 17 Mon
To Sig^. Spelteras Jour-
ney to England
To Ditt of wages 5£ Str.
To John the Cook in full
of wages .
To Fransisco of wages .
To Mark under cook
For jack boots 2 82
buff britches 1 D.
42g. 2 42
For 259 Rottolo
hambs 36 of ynJ 25 90
bring them from
, Soriento and
puting them a
boordintheMoll 2 30
3 Parmozan cheases
165 lb. . 43 85
Sterling
d. c. g. £ s. d.
50 0 0 10 0 0
52 5 9 10 10 4
To Erasmus Hol-
land
1
0
Mr. Golds Maid
1
0
SigJ" Stefano a hat
3
0
Capusins and
Preasts
0
20
the Consul and
i
Tories servants
1
50
Marquis R. .
1
0
Faranta Mr.
Temples man
1
0
Gratcia
1
0
76
6
0
15
6
5
65
0
0
13
0
0
21
0
0
4
4
0
3
4
0
0
13
7
3
1
0
0
12
5
0
11
8
0
9
8
5
2
4
0
4
0
0
4
0
0
12
0
0
0
10
0
6
0
0
4
0
0
4
0
0
4
0
9 7 0
5 3 7
0 9 3
8 15 4
all sent home
72 0 5
342 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foregn Tour] Sterling
For Maccarony at 7|g. d. c. gr. £ s. d.
10, 11, 13, 14 grpr.
Rott. all sent home 69
Rottolo of it . . 8 0 31 1 12 1
4501 7 0 902 11 10
For repairing
Chases . 13 50 2 14 0
Ditt . . 3 71| 0 14 9
Ditt 2D. 94g. ID.
73g.
days wages to
workmen
4 67
3 60
0 18
0 14
8
5
25
4
8|
For mending
sadles
1 20
0 4
10
caring trunks and
sighting yni
postilions to ty on
bagag
stra to lay bagage
right •
3 30
0 05
0 07
4
6
0 13
0 0
0 0
2
8
The expense of our Jour-
ney in the Kingdom of
Naples to Rome 51 1 0 10 4 5
From Household book
from 1 January 1733
to the 22nd of March
1733 . . . 333 2 5 66 13 0
4916 1 5|985 9 8
1 this in English money at 510 Ducats for 100£ Sterline is
960£ 2 shillins.
^ Lady Grisell here takes the ducat as worth 3s. iid. sterling. In the
editor's calculations the ducat has been taken as worth 4s. ; hence the dis-
crepancy.
1733]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
34S
[Foreign Tour]
Bring back Rome ex-
penc which is .
2 crouns is a sequin, a se-
quin 20 Julios, this in
English money is 138
guinys£l45 8 6
reckoning 20 Julios or
pauls half a guiny
Bring back Bolome sum
d. Julio by
554 2 9
Sterling
£ by.
of
.1160 13 4
this in English money 10£
10 byocks to a sequin
57£ 16 shillins .
Rome, 1733
March 29 For our journey from
Terracina to Rome
Apl. 22 For our journey from
Rome to Florence and
from Florence to Bal-
onia
For seeing Churches
Palices and villas 9D
6 P. of it for the great
Duks Gallarie .
For Chease repairs
For cords 5p. caring
cheases .
For greess .
For porters to Duan, etc.
For 7 days coach Mezar-
eri week, 20 pouls
10 days at 12 pauls
For 2 coaches 2 days .
To Mr. Strods contribu-
tion
To Mrs. Cottan .
crouns p. byocks Stg.
164 8 0 43 4 2
37
8
0
9
18
5
40
4
0
10
12
1
0
6
8
0
3
4
0
7
7
0
3
10
1
4
0
0
7
4
14
0
0
3
13
6
12
0
0
3
3
0
5
0
0
1
6
3
4
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
5
3
cr.
p. by.
1
£
s. d.
0
3 0
0
1 7
0
7 0
0
3 8
344 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foreign Tour]
To JNIr. Hamiltons ser-
vant
To coachman
For a syrang 2 D a box
for it Ip 3d. . . 2 13 0 11 1
For 2 brushes Ip. 5 paper
6 . . . .021011
To Angelo the footman 5 10 16 9
To Lowrensin to cary
him to Naples . . 4 0 0 110
To mend boots and
baginet . . .035019
Florence For repairs of Cheases ID
9 washing, etc. 5 . 2 4 0 0 12 7
For nails and gemlet
8Sc. and caring chease
2p 0 2 8 0 13
For essenes for us all and
orang butter . . 14 9 0 3 18 3
For 2 ounces apaplectick
balsom . . .10 0 0 5 3
To the house and cook
here . . .10 0 0 5 3
For letters for Mr.
Temple 3p. for our-
selves . ..100 053
For a coach 17 days at
9 pauls p^ day .
For pometam
For Lodging and enter-
tainment at Madam
Pettits for 5 days 50
9 wax candle, suger,
etc. 5 5 4 . . 56 4 4 14 16 2
To Ditt 14 Days at 48
Pauls a day and to
servants 2D. . . 86 7 0 22 15 2
Jossipies For Ditt at a f rench house
5
3
9
4 0
4
0
1
5
0 0
8
\
1733]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
345
[Foreign Tour] Sterling
May 26 18 days 40C. pr day or. p. by. £ s. d.
french etc. 3 . . . 80 4 8 21 2 4
house
brought all from house
book . . . 554 2 9 145 7 7
here a sequin is 10 Liners 10 byocks, and l£ is 2 pauls,
and 12 demi is a byock
Balonia
15 May For 2 Cheases to Palazzo £ by D
1733 Albegote with Lady
Essex 12£, voitarins
men to drink £4 10 .
For a coach 23 days at
10 pauls p'^ day
For our lodging at 1| se-
quin for 26 days
For 4 linch pins 2£ rops
7£ . . .
For puting in cheases l£
mending pistols
For a saddle
To Lowra the maid, 2
pistols at 36 pauls
From House Book
Going Post to Franco-
lina 5| post pr acct. 1037 13 4
to be added 123£ to
this
6 3 0
Vinice
.11 June
16 10 0 0 16 6
131 0 0 6 11 0
408 10 0 20 8 6
9 0 0 0 9 0
4 10
0
0 4
6
11 10
0
0 11
6
36 0
0
1 16
0
420 13
4
21 0
8
1160 13 4 58 0 8
For 2 piots in 3 days from
Francolina 9 florence
sequins at 21 paul
which is here 21 Linrie
846
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1733
[Foreign Tour]
and to the rowers 3£ £
8 byoks or soldis de-
vide this in 3 pairts is 126
painters maid 2£ paper
wax etc. 4£ . .6
For a Gundala 8 days at
8£prday . . 64
For lodging and enter-
tainment in a French
house at 35£ per day
s.
d.
Sterling.
£ s. d.
8
0
3 3 2
0
0
0 3 0
0
0
1 12 0
except Tee and suger
372
0
0
9
6
0
to servants who served
us well
24
0
0
0
12
0
for frute and wine in the
piot
4
0
0
0
2
0
For seeing the Doges
Palice and other
places
12
0
0
0
6
0
3 glases at glass work .
5
0
0
0
2
6
For a Barchella to Padua
48 the 3<i is
32
0
0
0
16
0
to Rowers .
4
0
0
0
2
0
idua For Super, breckf ast, and
diner with S^ Rob
Broun and Neil Broun
ConsuU .
70
0
0
1
15
0
to the servant
1
10
0
0
0
8
cariing baggage
To a scrivener 6£
6
0
0
0
3
0
To the cetcerony a pistol
I rekon it
36
0
0
0
18
0
For 2 Coaches
20
0
0
0
10
0
For suger wax candle
etc. at Vinice .
51
9
0
1
5
9
For washing at Vinice .
24
0
0
0
12
0
Verona For grees to
cheases . 5 0
0
2
6
a coach at Verona 8 8
0
4
2
I733J OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 347
[Foreign Tour] Sterling
£ s. d. £ s. d.
seeing churches,
etc. there 6 0 0 3 0
19 8 0
877 15 0 21 18 9
This in English money at 2143 £17 7 soldis for £50 is
about 2l£ 15s. 6.
Frankford
here 4 florins and 15 Karmitens is a unger
Flo. k.
For seeing churches • 2 7 0
this is about 5 shillins sterlin
Vinice
For 1 lb. green 1 lb.
BoheTea . . 32 12 0 0 16 4
For 25 lb. Chocalet 112 10 0 2 16 3
For wax candle 1, 17,
letters 17£ . . 18 17 0 0 9 5
To sum brought over . 858 7 0
To Mr. Smiths Commis-
sion . . . 64 9 0 1 12 3
S 1087 05 p
bringdown 2l£ 15 6
and ad at 22£
in a sequin
228 £18 which
is . .550
27 00 5
For our Joiu'ney from d. g. d
Padua to Aix . . 627 0 0
348 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foreign Tour] Sterling.
£ s. d.
14| guiny From Padua to Trent
28| sequins at 22£
15 4 6
73 16 8 From Trent to Aix
a Post Horse 48 38 6 17
eating and lodgingllO 34 13 16 5
odd expences 33 14 4 3 1
expences of 2 Florins Kar.
cheases . 398 16 590 42 0 49 15 8
From Aix to Spa for
journey and other l. Su.
things 143 1 shillin . 71 15
4 10 0
£93 2 0
For our journey from
Leige to Valensien by
a particular account a
pairt, which particular
I must cary to Leger 327 19 0 14 9 9
For our Journey from
Valencien to Paris by
a particular account . 450 4 0 20 12 6
For our journey from
Paris to Calice by ditt. 517 6 0 23 13 11
To the Master of the Sloup
from Calice to Dover 96 0 0 4 8 0
1391 09 0
this at 1090 Livers for
£50 is near about 63£
Sterling 14 sh.
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 349
[Foreign Tour] Sterling-
Spa £ s- d.
10 July From Day House Book
1733 from this date to the ^ ^^
22nd Sepm'^. about franc S. Hers
£39, 12Stg. . 1464 5 2 85 8 0
Sept. 22 For 2 cheases with 18 0
2 horses each
to Liege . 24 0
2 riding horses 8 0 0 9 4
cariage of bagage
and postilions 7 15 0 2 0
diner for 14 at
Chairfountain 24 5 1 10 3
Leige, 24 2 night super
diner and break-
fast, 7 of us and
2 servants at
Mutton blane 40 0 2 6 8
Brusles 25 For 3 nights Lodg-
ing and eating,
6 of us . 53 2 3 1 11
to servant of the
house . 2 10 0 2 1
159 12 0
1623 17 2
This at 1725£ for 100£
Str is £94 4 6 Stg.
Paris, October
Tewsday 27 From Daybook from
2 Oct. to the date here-
of for 5 of our selves
and Mr. Horatio Man 320 0 0 14 2 0
this at 1090 Livers for ,
£50 stg is about 14£
2 sh. Stirling.
350 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foreign Tour] Sterling
For lodging 3 weeks 3 £ s. d.
days at le otel der
Hambourg 315 315 0 0 13 17 6
Sterling.
£ s. d.
For our laces at Brusles 63 11 0
Cambrick at Valensien . 17 2 1|
Duty at Custom house
for Cambrick . . 1 3 6|
For our journey from
Dover to London, 6 of
us and 2 servants p^.
a particular account . 16 8 8
To Mr. Man to clear
traveling accounts . 4 8 0
For silver plate 111
ounces and fashion . 31 17 6
For gilding the porangers 12 6
Leyden.
Account from the new stil that we came to
Roterdam which is 27 May 0 : stil of expenses only
for my D Grisie and I.
G. St. D. £ s. d.
For washing . . 2 8 0 0 4 5
For a piece of 7 Snuff
hander chiefs . . 11 10 0 111
For 51 Pertian to line
wraper at 28st . . 7 7 0 0 13 5
To a writing Apron 3| ell
armapre say 28 . 4 11 0 8 4
To James a pair of
Stokins . . .200038
For a pair pockets . 17 0 0 2 5
To John a p^. stokins . 2 0 0 0 3 8
1 14 0 0 3 1
I73I] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 351
[Foreign Tour] Sterling.
To 2 pr. threed stokins g. st. d. £ s. d,
mine . . . 3 14 0 0 6 9
For making Grisie's
goun
For a washing . . 3 0 0 0 5 6
For a pair pockets . 16 0 0 2 4
For 2 threeds of broad
holland 19i ell 54 st. 28 10 0 2 12 3
For 50| ell hoU gris
shifts at 37 st. . . 91 11 8 8 7 11
For 2 thrids of 49 ells
holland at 4 gul. . 130 14 0 11 19 7
For 16| holland at 58
sturs . . . 52 4 0 4 15 8
For Mushets holland 2£
Stirling . . . 21 19 0 2 0 3
To Mushet 30 sh. Str.
errour set in Leger . 00 0 0
To Mrs. Clench for 6
shirts . . . 95 18 0 8 15 10
For tape at Harlem . 10 15 4 0 19 8
For 2 piece green hand-
erchieff . . . 34 0 0 3 2 4
For 6 pr thread stockins ^
Grisie . . . 21 0 0 1 18 6
To 5 pr. thread stockins
for Grisie 2g 18st . 14 0 0 15 8
For 2 pr coUerd thread
stockins errour .000 000
For a piece broun
handerchiefs errour .
For apron Mushet . 19 0 0 2 8
Utright For a purs Grisie .
silver . 17 10 1 12 1
For a purs Rachy
ditt . 17 10 1 12 1
For a purs litle
gris — 17 0 1 11 2
852
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731
Foreign Tour"
Sterling.
For 3 velvet purss
g-
St.
d.
£
s. d.
to them . . 4 16
56
16
0
0
6 9
For 2 pr. gloves Grisie
and I . . .
1
8
0
0
2 7
For washing
3
13
0
0
6 8
For 10 Dutch els yaly ( )
silk for a goan
70
0
0
6
8 4
For stokins Grisie 29 2 st.
2
2
0
0
3 10
For 2 pr under stokins
Gris 2 g 2 St. .
2
2
0
0
3 10
For a pr baver
stokins . 3 0
0
5 6
a pr baver gloves 1 4
0
2 2
4
4
0
litle coffie pot
2
4
0
0
4 0
a litle lock to coffie pot
0
0
2
0
0 0::
litle copper ketle .
1
4
0
0
2 2
For a pr thread stok
under stokins Gris
1
10
0
0
2 9
For 4 piece tape
10, 5, 7, 6 . 1 12
0
2 11
buttons . 0 3
0
0 3
1
15
0
For a wagone to loonup-
stant . .
6
0
0
0
11 0
expenses at loonupstant ^
1
4
0
0
2 2
put to Grisies slives
For 4| ells hoUen for my
west coats
9
9
0
0
17 4
For the silver conforture
34
0
0
3
2 4
740
9
6
67 ;
14 11
^ This line has been interlined, and no doubt refers to the immediately suc-
ceeding entry.
I73I]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
353
[Foreign Tour]
Mostrick. At this place 37 skillins, and each skilling 10 St.
IS m a gumy.
Sterling]
For Mushets goun at 24
Sk. Mks.
doits
£ s. d.
Mark 10 ells .
24
0
0
0 14 0
Aix
To chairman for 3 days
3
0
0
0 19
37 sk. 4
For a doz glovs L Hervie^
15
0
0
0 8 9
Marks in
2 doz Grisie
26
0
0
0 15 2
a guiny
2 doz me
26
0
0
0 15 2
3 doz to give away
52
0
0
1 10 4
2 pr gloves Mrs. Terris
3
7
0
0 2 2
2 kains
5
0
0
0 2 11
2 nidle cases
3
0
0
0 19
Nidles
15
0
0
0 8 9
2 p'" shoves my D.
9
0
0
0 5 3
a litle silver plate
37
4
0
1 1 10
2 biger plates 20 crowns
160
0
0
4 13 4
callico for 2 bed gouns
lining
7
7
4
0 3 11
galoun and silk my coat
0
2
0
0 0 1^
6 p^ gloves to my D.
9
0
0
0 5 3
a floorishd handker
chief Grisie
15
0
0
0 8 9
3 snuff handkerchief my
Dear
24
0
0
0 14 0
a pair gray threed stok-
ins me
8
0
0
0 4 8
a pie boban
0
6
0
0 0 5
2 lb. puder .
1
3
0
0 0 9
For 7| els camb-
letforfrok5sk.37 4 0
1 1 10
furniture buttons.
etc. . 10 5 7
0 6 2
making 9 sk. 11
ells lining 15 27 3 3
0 16 11
75
4
2
1 See p. 302.
354 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1731
[Foreign Tour]
July 4
Aix For washing
Chair 8 days to Douse
17 times each near half
an hour at Douse
Making Grisies seek and
mine
a box for the heads
servant at Douuse
For 10| ell Indian
Tafita Gris 66 0 0
10 ells brountafita
me . . 60 0 0
clohth for stay
bands . 13 0 0 0 9
lining for the
sieves . 4 0 0 0 2 4
Sterling"
Sk. Mks.
doits
£ s. d.
16 0
0
0 9 4
8 0
0
0 4 8
34 0
0
0 19 10
10 0
0
0 5 10
1 1
0
0 0 8
1 0
0
0 0 7
1 18 6
1 15 0
131 3 0
For 3 1 ell Dyaper
Grisie . 10 4 4 0 6 1
6 ell holland my
D drawers 24 0 0 0 14 0
6 yd. holland my
drawers . 15 0 0 0 8 9
13| ell holland 3
aprons . 54 0 0 1 11 6
103 4 4
825 3 2 24 1 9
Spa, the 9 July 1731.
For a Neclace to me
a pair breast straps
13| ell holl for 4 aprons
Grisie 4 sk.
2 1 holl for pockets
2
5
0
0 15
3
0
0
0 19
54
0
0
1 11 6
6
7
2 .
0 3 11
I73I] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 355
[Foreign Tour] [Sterling
31 1 ell holl gris shifts at Sk. xMks. doits £ s. d.
4 skil . . . 127 9 0 3 14 7
3 pr spectickles 3 sk.
staff string U . .442027
lace at 15 sk Grisie
tuckers . . . 45 0 0 1 6 3
20 To John erour
a waterbotle errour
a pr. threed stokins . 6 0 0 0 3 6
To Moushets to buy her
goun lining . . 0 8 0 0 0 6
250 4 0 7 6 0
To the half of the stons
andwaxfrute . . 37 4 0 1 1 10
S. 287 8 0 8 7 10
il43£ 18 143£ 18s.
21 For 2 weeks washing this l. S.
21 sk. 7 . . . 10 17 0 0 12 2
To litle Grisie I owd her
on the last account . 3 0 0 0 3 5
To the old woman at
well . . . 0 10 0 0 0 7
To the waganier 5s. Dick
Litletonscarinish[?]5s. 0 10 0 0 0 7
To Grisie and Mrs.
Burnet necklaces . 2 0 0 0 3 2
To a Ball 4 sk. the boy
1 sk. . . . 2 10 0 0 2 10
Aug. 1 For a wash ball 7 2 lb.
powder 10 . . 0 17 0 0 0 11
For a weeks washing
saterday 28 July . 2 17 0 0 3 2
^ Lady Grisel here changes skillings, sous, and liers into its equivalent at Spa
in French money of livers and sous.
356
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731
[Foreign Totir]
For a p^ gray threed
stokins
For a Jeronstat dyell
For a box to Phillips the
Jesuit at Liege
8 For a lb. powder 5s a lb
this day 5s.
For neckleses Mrs. Dal
rymple and I .
To French horns .
To my Dear
For a box to Mr. Cartret
For 4 weeks washing a
sk. the day great pieces
6 sturs doz. small 5 st.
shirt, cravat,and hand-
kerchief and 3 st. shifts
and 3 sturs peticoats
8 handkerchiefs 4 hoods
to Grisie equely and
me 14 yd.
18 2 lb. I poweder a lb. this
day
a pr threed stockins
lost to Mrs. Spence
18 To my dear
For washing to the sater-
day 19 .
For a soliter to Grisie .
For 3 black neckleses .
take out pocket .
[Sterling]
1 L. S.
£
s.
d.
. 3 0
0
0
3
4
0 5
0
0
0
3
e
1 10
0
0
1
9
0 10
0
0
0
7
I-
2 0
0
0
2
3
1 0
0
0
1
1
2 10
0
0
2
10
t 1 0
0
0
1
1
4
0
0
0
4
6
31
5
0
1
14
10
0
19
2
0
1
1
3
0
0
0
3
5
12
0
0
0
13
6
37
8
0
2
1
8
10
0
0
0
11
3
3
0
0
0
3
5
3
0
0
0
3
5
138 11
37 8
2
0
7 16
2 1
2
8
101 3
2
5 14
6
Spailing. L. S.
28 For 3 lb. powder 2 ysday 0 15 0
0 0 10
I73I]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
357
[Foreign Tour]
[S
terl
ing
For a weeks washing
L.
S.
£
s.
d.
Saterday 25
4
5
0
0
4
9
Sept. 6
To Mushet .
18
14
0
1
1
0
Washing
16
13
0
0
18
9
Shoes my D. 5£ mend-
ing l£ . . .
6
0
0
0
6
10
2 pr clogs Grisie and I .
8
10
0
0
9
7
Leige
3 articles in generall
account .
94
3
3
5
5
11
fine holland my Dear at
4 livers 20 els .
80
0
0
4
10
0
19 Sepm.
Leige
The articles of 94 livers
8s 3 on the other side
set by mistake in the
general account is as
followeth :
34 J Demi holland
at 45 sturs for 7
shifts to Grisie 77 12 5
5 ells muslin for
4 cravats 11 5 0
2 night Napkins 5 6 1
46
15
0
2
12
Cambrick fine 46 15 0
7
3| ell Baskest which is
cambrick
29
15
0
1
13
5
For a pr boots to James
6
10
0
0
7
5
For a pr shoes my Dear
6
0
0
0
6
10
4 lb. powder and wash
ball
1
5
0
0
1
4
Waltins and silk for
mantle
1
10
0
0
1
9
Pocket my D.
6
0
0
0
6
10
2 pr. stokins to Gr.
5
0
0
0
5
8
2 Ink horns
0
14
0
0
0
9
John a guiny he has not
acc**ed for . ,
18
14
0
1
1
0
358
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731
Foreign Tour"
[Sterling]
the half of the kams in
L. S.
£ s. d.
the box .
S.
18 14
0
110
369 17
3
20 16 3
Oct. 12,
1731.
Lyon here the guiny or Lewidor is 24 livers
For 101 ell fioord silk to
G. at 20 Livers the ell
210 0
0
9 3 9
10| ell my goun at 10
Livers
105 0
0
4 11 10
lining and borders to
goun G. .
11 10
0
0 10 0
lining etc. to mine
6 4
2
0 5 5
my goun making .
5 0
0
0 4 4
Grisie goun making
5 0
0
0 4 4
Maid
1 0
0
0 0 lOi
6 head wires
0 6
0
0 0 3
mending James boots .
1 16
0
0 1 6|
Mushet for smalls
0 12
0
0 0 6
a hoop
15 5
0
0 13 4
washing linin
12 0
0
0 10 6
ell silk for a sute
cloaths
120 0
0
5 5 0
The Taylors for lining
and making
72 0
0
3 3 0
For making my old sack,
etc.
7 0
0
0 6 2
For mending James's
cloaths
2 0
0
0 19
For Dressing a hat and
Turin
lining
3 0
0
0 2 7
Oct. 27
For stokins to my D. .
2 pr uper and 4 under
7 0
0
0 6 2
myself
28 10
0
1 4 11
Grisie stokins
11 17
0
0 10 4
washing linins
7 0
0
0 6 2
spectickles .
1 10
0
0 1 3|
Millan
For washing
1 0
0
0 0 10|
I73I]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
359
Foreign Tour
[Sterling
1 Nov.
L.
S.
£
s. d.
Bolonia
For washing
11
0
0
0
9 7
washing
S.
15
0
0
0
13 2
660
10
2
28
17 8
Rome
23 Nov^ 1731. 20 pols a sequin.
1
Poul.
By.
£
s. d.
To my Dears pocket
21
0
0
10 11
a Stafe string
1
5
0
0 9
a Necklace me
5
0
0
2 7
Gloves my D
1
5
0
0 9
Gloves me .
1
5
0
0 9
Washing the doz. 1 pol
the shirts 5 byoks
18
0
0
9 4
48
5
1
5 1
26 Carlin in a Rom
sequin
2 Kain Damaty for 2 p^"
pockets Gris at5 carline
261 . . .
1
0
0
0
4 0
Naples
5 Deem.
1732 A Kain and a Palm
ermasin for one apron
261 ...
2
7
0
0
10 9
6 Kanscord silk Rob 36
cor for Grisie .
21
6
0
4
6 5
25 3 0 5 12
A Ducat is 10 Carlins and Terie is 2 Carlins. 10 grains
is a Carline, 26 or 26| Carlins is a sequen, a Venetian
sequin is 27 carlins, a Ducat is about 4 sh. stirlin.
Naples. Wednesday, 5 Dec^. N. S. 1731.
Due. Car. Gr. £ s. d.
Caried over 25 0 0 5 12
To a capashin for siring-
ing the ears . . 5 2 0 1 0 10
360
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1731
Foreign Tour]
[Sterling'
For 15 Palm Cloath 11
Due.
Car.
Gr.
£
s.
d.
Due. can .
20
6
2
4
2
6
For tape 3 Carlins 5 g. .
0
3
5
0
1
5
For threed and silk
1
1
0
0
4
5
For paper 8 g., tape 5
car ....
0
5
8
0
2
4
For powder 2 car paper
0
3
0
0
1
3
For black ruban .
0
2
0
0
0
10
For gold buttons 9 grain
big and 4| gr small
the peice .
14
4
0
2
17
8
For threed 4 g .
0
0
4
0
0
2
For a wige to Gr .
3
0
0
0
12
0
For making and lining
my Deirs Cloaths by
John
12
6
0
2
10
5
For making G. wastcoat
and mine
0
8
0
0
3
2
For 9^ can velvet my
goun at 5| Ducat
52
7
n
10
10
10
For a pr. black silk
stokins
2
8
0
0
11
2
For a can blew
cloath . 7 2 0
1
8
10
5 and 4 yellow
serge . 3 2 2
0
12
9
5| ou. gold galoun 7 15
1
8
0
buttons . 0 8 0
0
3
2
makeing . 4 0 0
22
jj
7
0
16
0
1732
0
Seteday
For 10 ells Demie holl:
G and I .
9
0
0
1
16
0
January
9 For 6 spoons 15 D. 6 C.
5 g. gote for 2 old ones
3 D. 9 Carlins .
11
7
5
2
6
9
To the Italian Master a
moneth .
3
3
8
0
13
7
1732]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
361
[Foreign Tour]
To Gibson of her 20£
12 Legu .
For 3 can Dyaper for Dr.
For threed 3 g. .
To Musick Master a
moneth .
For coppying Musick .
To my Dears pocket
For washing 5 weeks
12 For li xV Can Muslin 26
Cctx • • • •
[Sterling]
1732
Janr 22
To the litle Italian Mr.
For fine sope
For a hat to James
For a p'^ shoes to me
To Doctor .
To the Mantua Maker me
To the Mantua Maker
Gris
For my velvet mittons .
For copiing music at 1 C.
the 4 lines
For 5 Lottery Ticket of
Millan
For Tuning spinet a
month
For a pr. short furd gloves
me ....
To S. Carmany Playing
master
For St. Josephs pictor .
Due.
Car.
Gr.
£
s.
d.
32
4
0
6
9
7
3
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
3
0
0
n
4
5
0
0
18
0
2
6
0
0
10
5
7
8
0
1
11
2
6
0
0
1
4
0
3
9
5
0
15
91
246
4
9|
49
6
4
2
0
0
0
8
0
0
2
0
0
0
10
1
4
0
0
5
7
1
0
0
0
4
0
5
4
0
1
1
7
4
0
0
0
16
0
4
0
0
0
16
0
1
7
0
0
6
10
8
1
0
1
12
5
7
2
0
1
8
10
1
2
0
0
4
10
1
0
5
0
0
2
0
4
5
0
0
18
0
0
2
0
0
0
10
1 Up to this point the accounts are given in full detail. Henceforward, in
order to avoid repetition, only selected entries are given.
362
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1732
[Foreign Tour]
For Chera de Spanie is
wax and jostro. Ink
and ostio [?] wafers .
For 2 Naples handker-
chiefs
For 4 Mesina handker-
chieffs
For 3 can of the 10 can
strypd armazin for my
Rob 25 C.
For a pr. shoes my D. .
For 25 1 can blew armazin
for curtins 22 Carlins
For 17 can snuff colour
linins
For I can black armaz.
hats
For 8 venturs in the
Lotery at Rome for us
and our grandchildren
For 8 ventors in the
Lotery at Millon for
Ditto
For Jamie Mitchell and
Mr. Sausure in Rome
Lottery .
For 3 can strypd armozin
of the purple for me
1732, 23 C.
Naples,
12 Mch
Sterling]
)uc.
Car.
Gr.
£
s. d.
0
1
8
0
0 9
1
8
0
0
7 2
4
0
0
0
16 0
7
5
0
1
10 0
1
0
0
0
4 0
56
0
0
11
4 0
37
1
0
7
8 5
1
1
0
0
4 5
20 2 5 4 10
18 8 5 3 15 4
5
4 0 117
6 9 0 17 7
For 4 pr spectickles and
one case .
1
3
0
0
5
2
For Don quickset
0
8
0
0
3
2
For a pr. black knit
mittons G.
1
0
0
0
4
0
For 14 palm armazin
Cantoush at 24 c. Gr.
4
2
0
0
16
10
For 1|. 1. p. green g :
wraper 22^ c. .
3
7
0
0
14
10
1732] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 363
[Foreign Tour] [Sterling]
For 2 cans p. green Due. Car. Gr. £ s. d.
peticoat 22i C. . 5 0 4 10 2
For 1 C. 5 palm g :
wraper 25 C. . . 4 0 6 0 16 3
For 3 Can green for
Sultain22|C. . .675170
For 2 green aprons G:. 278 0112
For making Can-
tush G. . 5 0 0
green peticoat 3 0 1
wraper . 5 0 0
ruban to peticoat 2 6 0
Sultain . 6 0 0
For 3 snuff handker-
chiefs G. .
For 2 fether Tipits G
and I . . .
For 4 snuff handker-
chiefs me
For a p^ shoes my D :
broun
For 4 picturs to George .
For 4 pair spectickles .
29 To the Italian Master .
To the Playing Master
to 12 Mar.
For making 3
gouns me 5 4 0
making 1 to G : 18 0
2
1
6
0
8
8
1
5
0
0
6
0
1
G
0
0
6
5
2
6
0
0
10
5
0
9
0
0
3
7
2
0
0
0
8
0
2
0
0
0
8
0
3
4
0
0
13
7
4
5
0
0
18
0
7 2 0 19 2
For 2 can black
silk my D 2 4 8
making the waist-
coat . . 6 2 2
lineing and but-
tons
364
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1732
[Foreign Tour^
making velvet
[Sterling'
britches . 0 2 2
Due.
Car.
Gr.
£
s.
d.
Q
ft
ft
1
Ifi
ft
Naples
«7
yJ
\j
X
xu
\f
1732 copiing Musick 14 0
Italian Master 3 4 0
4
8
0
0
19
2
Churches at Soriento
1
5
0
0
6
0
2 handkerchief snuff
ones me .
0
7
0
0
2
10
a Dressing glass .
1
0
0
0
4
0
2 fans Gris .
5
0
0
1
0
0
6 aprons changeing
colour 22 C.
9
6
0
1
18
5
2 pr yellow stokins Gr.
2
0
0
0
8
0
a tortoyshel comb, Gr. .
0
9
0
0
3
7
2 goss handker chiefs G.
1
4
0
0
5
7
yellow shoes Grisie
0
0
0
3
2
a rid coffer with yellow
nails
5
0
0
1
0
0
Coppiing musick .
3
2
0
0
12
10
a subscription for Musick
2
7
0
0
10
10
Blooding
1
2
4
0
5
0
May 12 Carmany Gordana play-
ing Mst. .
9
0
0
1
16
0
tuning spinet
0
6
0
0
2
5
Itahan Master Mr. Nicol
3
4
0
0
13
7
Chuches which is asses
at a Terie the whole
day and a man
1
8
0
0
7
2
22 1 Can green Pertian
bed 11 C.
24
1
0
4
16
5
Cutting Grisie's hair
0
8
0
0
3
2
14 binding music books
16 gr. .
1
2
8
0
5
2
For cutting Grisies hair
0
4
0
0
1
7
For copiing Corellies
Musick
0
2
6
0
10
5
For 3^ can Armazin me
1732]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
365
[Foreign Tour^
[S
terl
ing
22 C. changing gold
Due.
Car
Gr.
£
s.
d.
and white
7
1
5
1
8
7
To Nicol taylor for all
Mantas 18, carlins sul-
tains 8 c., cantush 5 c,
peticoats 3 and work
in the house 4 carlins
p day and meat
9
7
0
1
17
9
1 can jmdisoy britches .
2
4
0
0
9
7
a pr garters
0
4
0
0
1
7
2 pr silk stokins .
6
5
0
1
6
0
2 pr under stokins
3
2
0
0
12
10
For 20 gold loups
3
0
0
0
12
0
20 gold buttons .
0
8
0
0
3
2
1732 Account of Marbel bought at
Naples.
May 24 For 2 Marbel Tables
Fiore de persico from
Don Michel Dicalabria
56
0
0
11
4
0
2 wooden cases
2
0
0
0
8
0
Shiping in the Barcelona
and custom house
officers
2
3
0
0
9
2
For the whole Marble
Tables . . 3846
0
4
769
4
2
3906 3 4 781 5 4
take of this for some was
sold . . . 666 0 0 133 4 0
3240 3 4 648 1 4
To sundry things by Mr.
Man pr ace*. . . 108 7 0 21 14 10
3349 0 4 669 16 2
take of Mr. Man's Tables 50 0 0 10 0 0
3299 0 4 659 16 2
the whole drawn upon Mr. Hammon this at 510 Ducats
366 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1732
[Foreign Tour]
for 100£ sterling is 646£ 16 shillins str. where entered in
cash book 300
346 10
[Note. — Lady Grisel bases her calculations here on the
ducat = 3/11, while in detailed calculations it has been taken
as worth 4/ ; hence the discrepancy.]
[Sterling]
Portice, 1732
Due.
Car.
Gr.
£
s.
d.
July 20 2 pr. silver clasps
0
1
5
0
0
7
a pr. velvet shoes
2
0
0
0
8
0
2 pr. silk gray stokins .
3
2
0
0
12
10
To Carmany for
singing . 13 5 0
2
14
0
hire of spinet .220
0
8
10
Chases to Masters 3 6 0
0
14
5
copiing music .0 4 0
0
1
7
2 floors
1
6
0
0
6
5
To Doctor Piagiddel
Potzzos .
4
5
0
0
18
0
To Nicols for blooding .
1
4
0
0
5
7
For turning broun waste-
coat
0
6
0
0
2
5
For 2 can velvet 6|
palm 2 cloks
16
5
n
3
6
4
1| can Armagin to line
cloks . . .
3
3
n
0
13
6
making and ruban to
cloks
1
3
0
0
5
2
To the Doctor
2
7
0
0
10
10
To Biries at the bridge .
0
2
0
0
0
10
For 5| can Dyaper 8 C
12 servits
4
4
0
0
17
7
18 long towills 25 gr. pr
can
4
5
0
0
18
0
1 1 can 3 hagabag napkins
0
8
9|
0
3
8
4 can servants and pantry
1
2
0
0
4
10
2 can kitchen cloaths .
0
3
4
0
1
4
threed 9 gr. pr ounc
0
4
0
0
1
7
1732]
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
367
[Foreign Tour"
For 4 baths Ishi water
[Sterling^
12 barrals each bath ]
Due.
Car.
Gr.
£
s.
(1.
15 gr. pr. barrel
7
2
0
1
8
10
caring it 4 days 3 carhns
each
1
2
0
0
4
10
a tub 9 days
0
9
0
0
3
7
To caposins
1
0
0
0
4
0
a can flanen
2
10
0
0
4
5
a pr velvet shoes 2^.
plain 8 car
2
8
0
0
11
2
ar gloves 6 C. 2 pr.
mittons 7 C. .
1
3
0
0
5
2
a pr. jumps and slives .
6
0
0
1
4
0
1 can silk for hoop
2
1
0
0
8
5
2 necleses 8 C. tape 2 C.
1
0
0
0
4
0
staples Deer 1732
a knite silk wastcoat
3
0
0
0
12
0
For 16| Cann olive Dam
-
ask to be sent home .
49
5
0
9
18
0
For rolling up silks
0
2
0
0
0
9
TomyD. .
2
0
0
0
8
0
For chases to Masters to
Portice
1
20
0
0
4
9
For 4 Moneths tuning
spinets
2
4
0
0
9
7
For tuning spinets to
ysday
0
6
0
0
2
5
For copiing music
1
7
0
0
6
9
For cuting hair G
1
0
0
0
4
0
For 6 Can shagreen my
XJ • • • • •
9
0
0
1
16
0
velvet for Nightgoun .
7
0
0
1
8
0
velvet shag 3| c linin .
17
0
0
3
8
0
gold loops for Ditt
4
0
0
0
16
0
a wige . . .
4
5
0
0
18
0
makeing goun, etc.
1
6
0
0
6
5
For a pair of shoes
0
8
0
0
3
2
Cambrick weepers
1
6
0
0
6
5
a black sword and gloves
1
8
0
0
7
2
368
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1732
[Foreign Tour
[Sterling^
15j and a half black
Due.
Car.
Gr.
£ s.
d.
cloath
19
4
0
3 17
7
3 can armazine .
6
6
0
1 6
5
buttons
2
4
0
0 9
7
making the sute .
4
5
0
0 18
0
making velvet sute
5
0
0
1 0
0
armazin
0
2
n
0 1
2
molds to velvet buttons
0
5
0
0 2
0
making goun pocks etc.
1
1
o|
0 4
5
18 palm cloath a full sute
24
7
5
4 19
0
2 can 5 palm armazin .
5
7
7
1 2
10
Damity for body lin
0
5
0
0 2
0
making the sute and
buttons .
4
5
0
0 18
0
twist for holls this should
not be . .
0
5
0
0 2
0
2 pr. gray slipers .
1
6
0
0 6
5
124
7
0
24 18
10
For my knit wastcoat
this is a green one to
my D. . . .
4
0
0
0 16
0
makeing 2 seks
4
0
0
0 16
0
a new hoop made
3
0
0
0 12
0
cover old hoop
0
5
0
0 2
0
6 can moyhair rigote
14
4
0
2 17
7
a black fan .
0
3
0
0 1
2
a crap hood
0
3
0
0 1
2
covering my jumps
2
4
n
0 9
7
1 can black damask
3
1
0
0 12
5
1 can armaz to line it
1
1
0
0 4
5
making wastcoat
0
5
0
0 2
0
aples 1732, O.S. Dec^. 27
For a velvet Muff Grisie
3
3
3
0 13
3
a p'" silk mittons .
1
2
0
0 4
10
7| can broun velvet
30
0
0
6 0
0
making 2 Robs. .
4
0
0
0 16
0
10
2
0
2 0
10
3
4
0
0 13
2
1
0
0
0 4
0
2
5
0
0 10
0
3
5
0
0 14
0
3
0
0
0 12
0
4
5
0
0 18
0
8
4
0
1 13
7
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 369
[Foreign Tour]
To 6 canes Poaso Du- [Sterling]
manz for my black Due. Car. Gr. £ s. d.
seek . . . 10 0 0 2 0 0
7 Jany. For 12 can velvet to the
N.S. Boys . . . 48 0 0 9 12 0
To Carmany playing
Master, etc.
For Mushets goun
Making
apron to her
Making and cloath to
James
Lowrenchiens cloath
John cudberts cloaths ,
Drinkmoney Cagnonies
20 To Mrs. Cagnonies a pies
cambrick . . 16 0 0 14 0
For a trunk with bras
Nails
For a book of Minuits
For a red trunk with
nails
For blooding by Nichels
vomits
recept plaster 2 7 in
gredians 1-6 .
Scots pills from England
Gravel cups to cure it .
Feb. For beding to the Maids
Shiets and pillabers
Brazier 8^ w^^ 22 gr.
Stand and spaleta for it
pen knif
2 clogbag trunks .
belt for lead bag .
bars to trunks by Gartano
wax cloth for trunks
paper 27 g. .
2 A
5
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
4
0
7
0
0
1
12
0
1
0
0
0
4
0
0
2
0
0
0
10
4
3
0
0
17
2
5
1
0
1
0
5
2
0
0
0
8
0
7
0
0
1
8
0
2
5
0
0
10
0
1
8
0
0
7
2
1
7
0
0
6
10
0
3
0
0
1
2
9
1
4
1
16
7
0
4
0
0
1
7
0
4
0
0
1
7
1
2
0
0
4
10
0
2
7
0
1
2
370
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1733
[Foreign Toui\
Sterling
Due.
Car
. Gr.
£ s.
d.
2 Lamps from Lig-
horn
16
3
5
3 5
4
ib. For 6 snuff boxes
15
0
0
3 0
0
cristall to my watch
0
5
0
0 2
0
2 fine snuff boxes Gr. .
17
0
0
3 8
0
to the Banificato .
0
8
0
0 3
2
Dona Luisas blew Dam-
ask . . . .
3
1
0
0 12
5
Musick paper
0
8
0
0 3
2
copiing musick
1
8
0
0 7
2
11 sword belts
3
3
0
0 13
2
26 fans
13
0
0
2 12
0
18 fans
2
0
0
0 8
0
2 caps to the boys
2
2
0
0 8
10
To John Cuthberts 4
spoons
9
0
0
1 16
0
more of wages
37
8
0
7 11
2
more 6 guinys
16
2
0
3 4
10
more . . . .
2
7
0
0 10
10
To James of wages over
his fans .
4
1
n
0 16
8
more by John after he
was gone .
2
0
0
0 8
0
more by John
3
0
0
0 12
0
For a wige .
4
5
0
0 18
0
2| p. green shagreen
0
5
0
0 2
0
2 wige combs
0
1
0
0 0
5
patches 12 gr.
0
1
2
0 0
6
padisoy for clock .
3
7
3
0 15
0
I spomalincena for hood
0
8
0
0 3
2
irch For 6 Torteshel combs .
4
6
0
0 18
5
For a spinet
1
4
0
0 5
2
For spomalincina sent
home 5 can and 4 pain
I
I take the half and L.
Bin the other and is .
8
8
0
1 15
2
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 871
[Foreign Tour]
10 pauls a croun, IG byocks a paul.
Rome 1733
Crs.
Pis.
By.
£
R.
d.
29 March For 2 wax Pops .
0
8
0
0
4
2
to
22 April
For prints .
For 4 copper Medles
For 2 Corinthen brass
c
4
2
0
0
0
1
1
12
1
6
0
pops
For 2 gold crouns and a
2
0
0
0
10
6
silver croun
4
3
5
2
2
10
For a discription of
Rome
1
6
0
0
8
4
For 2 marbel weights for
Frolenc
paper
For 2 volums of the
0
4
0
0
2
1
25 April
gallary of the great
Duke
25
2
0
6
11
4
10 vol. Italian books
6
4
4
1
13
9
2 alabaster figurs
1
0
0
0
5
3
For a putter tee pot
For Barminis Mistres off
0
6
4
0
3
3
a Statue .
0
0
4
0
0
n
To Mrs. Colmans coach-
man
0
5
0
0
2
7
For a wooden box with a
lock
1
2
0
0
6
3
For 2 Lyons of Marbel .
1
0
0
0
5
3
For my gandchild Hel-
lens Pictor
8
0
0
2
2
0
For 3 Pictor of Mr. Baillie,
my Daughter Grisie,
and my grandchild
Gris by Mr. Martine .
36
0
0
9
9
0
frames and glases and
box to ditt
16
1
0
4
4
6
For making my Dears
wastcoat .
4
0
0
1
1
0
For lutstring at 36 pauls
pr lb. .
16
0
0
4
4
0
372
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1733
[Foreign Tour]
[Sterling]
Crs, Pis.
By.
£
s.
d.
Dressing hair and wires
1 9
6
0
10
3
For my lutstring .
Bolonia
16 0
0
4
4
0
1733
May
15 A Sequin 21 paul, 2 pauls
a livre,
10 bycocks
is a
paul, and 12 Dinis a byock.
L. B.
4 pr filosel stokins
21 0
0
1
1
0
For seeing palaces
6 0
0
0
6
0
To the Copsin Convent
2 10
0
0
2
(i
For cariing spinet to St
Donis
1 0
0
0
1
0
To Prists .
1 0
0
0
1
0
Bolonia, For a pair jack boots .
22 0
0
1
2
0
1733,
For wire and dressing
May
hair
1 10
0
0
1
6
For a whip to John
2 10
0
0
2
6
For tobaco powder
5 0
0
0
5
0
For the box in the opera
house
85 0
0
4
5
0
cushen in the box
10 14
0
0
10
8
cloath to ly over the box
8 6
0
0
8
4
18 Tickets to the opera
30 10
0
1
10
6
2 opera book
2 0
0
0
2
0
For caring pictors
1 5
0
0
1
3
a book of what is to be
seen here
1 0
0
0
1
0
mending my watch
3 10
0
0
3
6
letters 6£. 10s.
6 10
0
0
6
6
For a pictor of the Autom
40 0
0
2
0
0
For a wax cloth curtin to
Chease
4 0
0
0
4
0
puting it up
2 6
0
0
2
4
1733
Venice
A vinecian sequin is 22 Lieris, a Florence sequin
2l£.
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 373
[Foreign Tour"
"Sterling
11 June For a book of the curi-
L. B
•
£ s.
d.
ositys here
2 0
0
0 1
0
Baucaches history
36 0
0
0 18
0
A Map of Venice .
31 0
0
0 15
6
a Map of Germany
3 0
0
0 1
6
the lives of the Painters
12 0
0
0 6
0
Plans of houses .
37 10
0
0 18
9
For 2 lb. tryackle with
boxes
13 0
0
0 6
6
hipocacuana
6 0
0
0 3
0
Sir Robert Brouns Nurs
22 0
0
0 11
0
Sir Robert Brouns Ser-
vants
6 0
0
0 3
0
General Shulenbergs ser-
vants
4 0
0
0 2
0
Seeing a Newranberge
show of Christs birth
and passion
1 10
0
0 0
9
Sir Rob* Broiuis garner
2 0
0
0 1
0
a barber
1 0
0
0 0
6
at a gundaliers weding
to fidls
2 0
0
0 1
0
For a wastcoat to
Jacome .
76 5
0
1 18
2
For Mush .
15 0
0
0 7
6
tobaco pip case .
5 0
0
0 2
6
a spung l£ 5s esher l£,
steel and flint 6s
2 11
0
0 1
6
3 whisks
0 16
0
0 0
5
3 pr spectickles .
2 0
0
0 1
0
stuflfine to cushen
2 0
0
0 1
0
For 9 1 brack camblet
8| lirie
8 10
0
0 4
6
12 bratch shogreen 5£ .
60 0
0
1 10
0
make cantush and seek
c^LO* • • •
16 0
0
0 8
0
5 brach a la mod for
sandella .
45 0
0
1 2
6
374 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foreign Tour]
L. B.
Sterling
£ s. d.
black lace for mittons
•
2 5
0
0 12
masks
•
3 0
0
0 16
a black cap
^
25 0
0
0 12 6
For the half of the
Apoticarys bill .
•
11 10
0
0 5 11
1733
Frankfoord
For 2 pair havers
Fl. K.
stokins
•
6 0
0
0 14 0
For 5 Doun pillows
•
13 0
0
1 10 4
For 30 of their ells for
pillabers .
•
13 0
0
1 10 4
For 45 1 lb. hamb
H
sture
•
6 1
0
0 14 0
3 10
0
0 4
1
3 0
0
0 3
6
9 9
0
0 11
0
50 17
2
2 19
3
25 3
2
1 9
4
44 48 0
this at 4 flarans 15 kamtins to ane unger and ane unger
10 sh. strline is £5, 5 shillins sterling.
Aix la Chaple, 10 July 1733, N.S. Livers.
For a pr. of shoes to me
Spa glovs at 15 st. Doge Skin
baver skin gloves 6 pair
Baver at 23 sk. peticoat
and clock
Castor clock at 11 12 .
For 6 ell castor for frok
and wastcoat . . 69 15 0 4 14
Sep™ To Mr. Hays subscrip-
tion
the Judge at Dimburgh
13 drawings of the Foun-
tons, etc.
3 pincils to my boys
a wanscote chist w* a lock
wax f rute .
a play to little Grisie .
2 Kain strings
37 10
0
2 3
9
30 0
0
1 15
0
10 0
0
0 11
8
1 10
0
0 1
9
6 10
0
0 7
7
8 0
0
0 9
4
2 0
0
0 2
4
2 0
0
0 2
4
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 375
[Foreign Tour]
Sterling
Livers.
£
s.
d.
capashiens in convent .
22
10
0
1
6
3
carvie box .
1
0
0
0
1
2
2 Peutter salts
1
0
0
0
1
2
a tortoy shell snuff box
Gr
VJI • • • • •
7
0
0
0
8
2
For Japan Dressing boxes 28
12
2
1
13
4
a quadreel box
15
3
0
0
17
8
5 Ivory boxes and 2 dyels
42
10
0
2
9
7
6 kains and a head to one
22
0
0
1
5
8
a comb trea
2
0
0
0
2
4
5 brushes
2
10
0
0
3
1
To the wemen at Geron
State
18
18
0
1
2
0
the wemen at the Pohone
11
7
2
0
14
3
For Lodging at the Loup
for 11 sk. pr. night from
10 July to 31 Aug. .
291
10
0
17
0
1
at 8 sk. to 22 Sept.
88
0
0
5
2
8
Anna Mary doughter
18
15
0
1
1
10
the maid
2
10
0
0
3
1
Spa
Sep. 22 For mending cheases
and sadles
114
5
0
6
13
3
a cheas for 4 persons to
go to Geronstat at 3 sk.
p'^ day in the season
and 2| sk. after it
96
10
0
5
12
7
To a cook 72 days
36
0
0
2
2
0
a sute cloathes to James
78
10
0
4
11
7
James of wages half a
guiny
9
7
2
0
10
6
John Cudbertson wages,
2 guinys .
37
10
0
2
2
0
For letters .
38
3
0
2
4
2
For washing 5 sow shirt
and cravat and hand-
kerchief 4 sows shifts
376
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1733
[Foreign Tour] [Sterling]
and a skillin the Doz. Livers. £ s. d.
on all other pices . 55 8 0 3 4 7
a cours sheat for the
trunk . . . 2 10 0 0 3 1
Leige
Sep. 23
For 12 ells lace 6| sk. 10
ell 13 sk., 10 ell 19 sk. 179 0
2 ells lace . . . 33 18
19 p^ gloves Lady HarvieM 4 5
3 pr mens gloves to give
away . . . 3 15
a purs Donohow . . 1 10
0
10 8
10
0
1 19
6
0
0 16
7
0
0 4
4
0
0 1
9
Brusles For bring brass trumpet
25 from Ipers
a surgeon to Grisies arm
Seeing Arch Dutches
Palice etc.
Lodging 3 nights and
eating 6 of us
muslin
1 10 0 0 19
4 0 0 0 4 8
4 10 0 0 5 3
6 4 0 0 7 3
Paris,^ friday, 20 October 1733.
24 livers a
Lewidc
)r
or guiny.
For 2 J ell cloath .
55
0
0
2 8
1
7| ell silk lining .
37
10
0
1 12
10
a pr. stokins to the cloaths 15
0
0
0 13
1
a pr. stokins or sheverin
18
0
0
0 15
9
a pr. baver stokins
9
0
0
0 7
10
a pr. worset stokins
10
5
0
0 9
0
a pr. thick traveling
stokins
3
0
0
0 2
7
a Hatt
17
0
0
0 14
10
5 duz butons to cloath .
5
0
0
0 4
4
plying etc. to ditt
5
0
0
0 4
4
' See p, 302.
' Paris accounts given in full.
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 377
[Foreign Tour] [Sterling]
Livers. £ s. d.
making ditt . . 10 0 0 0 8 8
2 wigs a ty one and a bob
3 Lew. . . . 72 0 0 8 8 0
taylors man . . 1 0 0 0 0 lOj
baver gloves at 35 sturs 13 10 0 0 11 6
Paris
271 5 0
For ane Alamad 5
9
0
0
4
9
hood to me
a duzon combs
9£, 3 of tor-
toyshel 12£ 21
0
0
0
18
4
making my vin-
ice silk Rob 8
0
0
0
7
0
a sheneel Pala-
tine . 6
0
0
0
5
3
6 ells black lace 30
0
0
1
6
3
8 ells narow
black lace 12
0
0
0
10
6
puder puff 10
St. wires 10 s. 1
0
0
0
0
io|
black gass hood,
etc. . . 9
0
0
0
7
10
thick travel-
ling stockins 3
0
0
0
2
7
Baver skin
gloves at 35
st . .20
0
0
0
17
6
115 9 0
For a gass head 4
0
0
0
3
6
For caps quilted
for dressing
4 of them 5 15 0 0 5 0
378
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[1733
[Foreign Tour]
[Sterling
Livers.
£
s. d.
For wires 10 st.
patches l£
puff 10s. .
2
0
0
0
1 9
to a tire woman
for dressing
3
0
0
0
2 7
13 ell floord
silk goun and
coat 26st. i
338
0
0
14
15 9
6 breads white
satin with a
deep floord
border for a
Jupon
132
0
0
5
15 6
Neclaces slav-
ages and ear-
rings
30
0
0
1
6 3
Alamode hood
5
0
0
0
4 4
Sheneel Tipit
4
10
0
0
3 9
a duzon of
combs
9
0
0
0
7 11
a flowrd and
silver tipet
5
0
0
0
4 4
a black ladd
Hood
90
0
0
3
18 9
white rubans
1
4
0
0
1 0
Mantua maker
16
0
0
0
14 0
a sute Muslins
12
0
0
0
10 6
fringe at 7 st
8 ells
2
15
0
0
2 4
Muslins for
fashus
6
6
9
0
5 6
making fashus
and washing
them
1
13
0
0
1 5
2 pr shoes .
12
0
0
0
10 6
4 pr Imbro-
dered shoes
20
0
0
0
17 6
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 379
Foreign Tour
[Sterling'
Antoylage
Livers.
£ s. d.
head
13
0
0
0 11 5
3 ells aunage,
3£ 10s. .
10
10
0
0 9 2
2 ells aunage
5£ .
10
0
0
0 8 9
palatins
10
0
0
0 8 9
thick travel-
ing stokins
3
0
0
0 2 7
Baver gloves
35 St. the pr.
20
0
0
0 17 6
Antoylage sute
37
0
0
1 12 2
803 13 9
1
1190 7 9
1
Paris
Oct. 11
To the person <
of
1733
Lord Walgraves
Chaple
•
6
0 5 3
Sn^ Bellonys
Bill
from Buro
at
Rome
12
0
0 10 6
Description of
Paris
15
0
0 13 1
3 cookry Books
6
15
0 5 11
a book of beasts
>
3
10
0 3 0
4 unbound books
of
•
6
10
0 5 8
4 places in the
opera house
•
32
0
0 18 0
seeing observato^,
palices, and
churches
18
0
0 15 9
Madam la Duches
and W. Lessis
otels etc. .
•
8
0
0 7 0
380
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
[Foreign Tour]
Cardinal Richlieu's Livers.
Monument . 4 0
Seing looking glass
work . . 4 10
[1733
[Sterling
£ s. d.
0 3 6
0 3 11
116 5
0
For a lisenc for a
coach to the
country
6
0
0
5
3
errour 15 An order to see
versyles
Diner at Mudin
8
6
0
7
8
Lodging and eat-
ing a night at
versyle
43
12
1
18
1
Diner at Marley
7
8
0
6
6
Lodging a night
and eating at
St. Jarmens .
24
0
1
1
0
Diner at .
9
18
0
8
7
black pudins at
St. Jarmans .
2
12
0
2
3
a botle ratafia 3£
drams 12 st .
3
12
0
3
2
Seeing Lamule .
3
0
0
2
7
The Dary there
1
4
0
1
0
St. Clou etc.
4
16
0
4
2
Menagery
3
0
0
2
7
Treanon .
3
0
0
2
7
Marly seeing things
4
4
0
3
8
the water machine
near Marley .
3
0
0
2
7
Seeing Mason .
3
0
0
2
7
17 crossing the river
Sean
1
10
0
1
3
James the foot-
man or Jacome
2
0
0
1
9
134 2
0
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 381
[Foreign Tour]
1733
[Sterling'
Paris To Caparan teeth
Livers
.
£ s. d.
drawer
96 0
4 4 0
tooth powder .
1 15
0 16
teeth water
G 0
0 5 3
For 12 botles Laii
de Carin
10 0
0 8 9
hungary water .
6 0
0 5 3
119
15 0
For a toothpice
case . . 10 0 0 8 9
4 knives 14£ a pen-
knif£l . 15 0 0 13 1
2 razors ..60 053
a St. Clou shoe
snuffbox . 24 0 110
another St. Clou
box ..60 053
2 doz. St. Clou
hefts for knives 24 0 110
5 salt botles .50 044
2 pr. siszers .40 036
hinges to 2 boxes
of Ivory .60 053
For ane Eparn
±\j\j yj
\j
french silver .
205
0
8 19
4
a pr ditt Candle
ka.
sticks .
22
0
0 19
3
2 pr ditt candle-
sticks .
48
0
2 2
0
2 salts of ditt .
12
0
0 10
6
a p^. snuffers and
pan
10
0
0 8
9
2 snuff pans
12
10
0 10
11
2 frute plates of
ditt
26
0
1 2
1 n
9
382 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK [1733
[Foreign Tour'
For 14 ells floord
Sterling"
silk Mally Mit-
Livers.
£
s. d.
chell £16, lOst. 231
0
10
2 1
making the sute
12
0
0
10 c
a geneel tipet Mrs.
Mitchell
5
0
0
4 4
a tipet to Miss
Johnston
12
0
0
10 6
a handkercheff
Lady Louth .
12
0
0
10 6
2 p^ rufles to my
boys T and G
34
0
1
9 9
2 knoted tipets to
give away
6
0
0
5 3
an imbroyderd
handkerchieff
6
0
0
5 3
a block to dress
'
upon .
2
0
0
1 9
-
—320 0 0
1733
-
Paris.
Oct. 15
To one Mr. Menzies
8
0
0
7 0
reading new prints
1
0
0
0 10|
Mr. Knights coach-
man
3
0
0
2 7
Mrs. Horner s
coachman
3
0
— 15
0
2 7
For the prints of
versyles
20
0
0
17 6
pocket books from
nuns
31
0
1
7 1
nidle books from
nuns Ms Howard
6
0
0
5 3
blew marking
threed 7| small
hanks .
2
5
0
1 11
.
— 59 5 0
1733] OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 383
[Foreign Tour]
For the coach and
2 horses and our [Sterling]
own 2 horse 3
day to Marsils Livers. £ s. d.
etc. . . 12 0 0 10 6
Jacome the foot-
man drink .20 019
14 0 0
For a coach and 2
horses at 10
Livers p^ day 230 0 10 1 3
to the coachman 12 0 0 10 6
Lewis Mr. Mans
servant .30 027
245 0 0
Tewsday, 27 For the otel
for 3 weeks and 3 days
servants in Lodging . 12 0 0 0 10 6
To John Cudbert
of wages . 24 0 110
ditt3iLewider 90 0 3 18 9
ditt 6£ 9£ . 15 0 0 13 1
129 0 0
Jacomo . . 43 0 1 17 8
a lacd hat 7£ lace
15 . . 22 0 0 18 3
footman Martins
place ..90 0 7 10
530 0 0
For washing . . 20 0 0 0 17 6
132-16 Stg.^ 2884 4 9 126 3 8
^ This is Lady Grisell's jotting as to the value of the Paris expenditure, but
if 24 livres=;^i, is. as she states elsewhere, it is difficult to see how she arrives
at her result.
384
THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
Memorandums for Earl Hadinton and Mr. Baillie in their
Travelling.' Oxford, March 10th, 1740.
Inns in France
Dijon .
St. Loois.
Lyons
. Au Pare.
Nismes
a L' Orange.
Montpellier .
Cheval blanc.
Avignon
. Au Pelican.
Aix
. Au Bras d'Or.
Marseills
. Aux treze Cantons.
Valence
. A la Post.
Monteumant
. A la Post.
Toulon
. Notre dame de Petie
Narbon
. A la d'Orade.
Beziers
. A la Croix blanche.
Carcassone .
. Au Lion d'Or.
Castlevaudon
. Au Lion d'Or.
Toulouze
. Au bon Pasteur.
Montauban .
. Au Tapis Verde.
Bourdeaux .
Chez Madame Bennet.
Xaintes
. L'Ecu de France.
Nants
. Vis a vis les Carmes.
Angers
. L'Ours.
Samur
. Trois Maures.
Tours
. A la Galere.
Orleans
. Notre dame de Chaise.
Estampes .
. A la Post.
Inns in Italy
Turin .
La Bonne Femme.
Milan .
Le Faucon, Al Puozza o' Tre Re.
Genoua
. La Croix blanche ou Santa
Martha.
Leghorne
Lion blanc ou Croie d'Oro.
^ These 'Memorandums' are contained in a note-book of 120 pages,
8" X 6", and are not in Lady Grisell's handwriting, though evidently of her
composition.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
385
Pisa .
Florence
Sienna
Rome
Naples
Bologna
Ferrara
Venice
Padona
Vicenza
Verona
Modena
Reggio
Parma
Piacenza
Luca .
Mantua
Ceremonies.
Collins's, an English house, but
a French house in Via Magia
to be preferd.
Trc Re.
Monocos al Trinita di Monte,
best apartments 20 crouns a
month.
II Cappello Rosso.
Al Pellerino.
Lione Bianco.
Chez Monsieur d'Hemy sopra
ill Grande Canale extream
good.
Re e Regina d'Inghilterra.
Le due Rote.
Le due Torre.
St. Georgio.
Giglio Coronato.
Alia Posta.
La Croce Bianca.
II Corallo.
Lione d'Oro.
Wesel
Dusseldorp
Cologn
Bonn .
Coblentz
Mayentz
Frankfort
Wurtzburg
Donawert
Nuremburg
Ausburg
Munick
Inspruck
Trent .
Inns in Germany
Le Baisin Bleu.
Hoff van Holland
Hoff van Holland.
Der Stern.
Lillie.
Gulden Crannerin.
Gulden Engel.
Gulden Swaan.
Gulden Sunne.
Gulden Haan,
Le Raisin d'or.
. The Daler.
. Gulden Rosen.
Gulden Rosen.
2 B
886 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
Directions for Holland
In general avoid lodgeing at any English or Dutch
house, they being the most imposing, the French the best.
A rule never to be departed from throw all Holland
is constantly to make an agreement first for every thing
you get, or in imploying anybody if but for a message,
or you will be greatly imposed upon and pay duble. If you
use them with sevilety and show them you will not be
bubbled the}' will use you well, but in no way will bear
rugh treatment, and are ever ready to impose upon any
they see ignerant and careless.
At Rotterdam
Avoid the English house the most impertinently im-
posing of any we met with. If Mr. Baillie the banker be
alive send for him, or for Mr. Knaghten a banker, both
Scots men, either of them will be usefull to you, when
they know who you are.
At the Hague
Send for Monsieur Piere Daniel Tonyn sur le Corte
Vyverberg he is brother to Capn. Tonyn, he will assist you
in anything. Lodge at Mr. Adams at the Golden Star
and Lyon in the Korte Houtstraet near the plain. There
is an ordinary which it is very right to dyn at when you
do not stay long in a place, to see the manners and ways
of different peojDle, but a disagreeable thing to be con-
stantly in a croud of straingers. Here you must go and
wait upon the King of Britains Minister if there is one,
and so you must do where ever you go where the King has
a Minister. If he returns not yoiu* visit go no more.
At Amsterdam
Send for Mr. James Wedderburn, INIerchant, a relation
of yours, he will assist you in any thing, he lives over de
Illustre School op de flucale Burghwall. Lodge at the
Bible and Orange in the Warmer Straet or Ville de Lions.
Hear the fine organ in the great church.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 887
At Leyden lodge at the Castle of Antwerp on the Kopen-
burgh. The Phisic Gardens and other gardens there are
worth seeing.
At Delft see the Prince of Oranges Tomb.
At Harlem see the Bleech field, a fine sight when covered
with cloth.
At Utrecht lodge at the Casteel van Antwerp op de
ganse Markt. If the Prince and Princess of Orange be at
Insedyck, a house of theirs near Utrecht, or at their house
in the wood near the Hague, or anj'^ where near, you must
go wait upon them, and get some body to go with you to
introduce you.
A Rout for seeing North Holland
Hire voitures at Amsterdam by the day, make it in your
bargen that the coachman shall maintain himself and
horses, otherways you will be much imposed upon in that
article, if you can likeways agree with him that he shall
pay all the passage and toll money, it will be better, but
that thej^ will not like to do.
Let the voiture cross the river in the morning befor
you are ready, otherwise you will be detaind, you take
coach just at the place where you land on the other side
of the river, the first toun you come to is Munickendam,
from that you come through another toun cald Edam,
but in neither of those places is there any worth seeing,
then go to Hoorn where you may dine at the Dool.^ Befor
you come to Munickendam yon pass a village cald Brook,
which is remarkable for being built without any order or
regular streets, the houses all detacht from one another ;
it is very neat and the inhabitants reckond vastly rich,
after seeing Hoorn you go that night to Enchussen, the
best house is the Toorn upon the shore, see the Stadhouse
there. If you stay out but two days go from Enckuyhen
' In most towns in Holland there were ' doelen ' or shooting galleries, where
archery was or had been practised. These either developed into hotels or gave
the name to many hotels which still exist. The old ' Dool ' at Alkmaar still
survives, in the courtyard of which people may be seen even to this day practis-
ing archery. The word ' doel ' means ' mark ' or ' aim.'
388 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
to Alckmaer which is the prittiest toun you ^vill see, go
airly and you can be back at Amsterdam at night, re-
member to hear the organ in the great church of Alckmaer,
the finest in the world. Lodge at the Dool.^ Between
Alckmaer and Amsterdam you come through a very fine
coiuitry which formerly was three great lakes and stile
retain the names of the Bumerent, the Beemster, and the
Scermer, if you stay out three days go from Enchuysen
to Medenblyck, the best house the Valck, you may be
early in the afternoon at Alckmaer and next da}'^ return
to Amsterdam by Harlem.
Some Account of the Difference of Money
Guineas are a ready coin all over Holland and Flanders
if you can carry them without discovery, and is better then
a bill when the Exchange is 36 Eskillings for a guinea,
the Eskillings in Holland are not so good as in Flanders,
those with a star are the best, those cald Mai Eskillings
pass for a peny or half peny less, they will take non of the
Dutch Eskillings for what the}'' pass in Holland in Flanders,
so get rid of them. The Guilders which are 1 shillin and
8 pence of our money are a good coin and taken in Flanders
for the full value. At Leige and Spa and all the Bishop
of Leige's Country an Eskilling gose for 10 pence, so that
every Guinea passes for £1, 10 10, reckoning 37 Eskillings
to the guinea.^
No money gose in France but the new French Louis,
but they are seazable at entring into the country if they
find above 5 Louis for each person, but as you loose much
by bills of exchange you must hide what you have and
show only a little, Li a Louis there is 24 livers, in a liver
20 sols, there is 3 liver pieces which is cald Ecus blanc
and 6 liver pieces which is cald Ecus grand.
Spanish or French Pistols^ go best in Italy any other
1 See note, p. 387.
^ This statement of Lady Grisell hardly coincides with her accounts, where
the schelling is valued at a little over 6d., which would appear to be more
correct.
' About 17s. 7jd.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 389
money loosing much, so change your French money for
Spanish or French Pistols befor you go into Italy, they go
all over it, and so dos Florentine, Genoese and Venetian
Sequins,^ which last are the best money, if you can get
them at the same price they are allways best but do not
take them in Lombardy. A Sequine is about the value
of half a guinea, what is cald a Roman croun, tho I never
saw the coin, is 10 Pauls, there is 20 Pauls in a Sequin,
in a Venetian Sequin I think there is 21 or 22 Pauls, a
Testoon is 3 Pauls.
The silver money in the Kingdome of Naples is different
from that all over Italy. In a Sequin there is Naples
ducats, in a ducat 10 Carlins, and a coin cald a terri which
is two Carlins.
In Germany Hungars is the money most curent, a
Hungar is a gold coin in which is 4 Florins and some times
10 or 12 Karrentari, 60 Karrentari make a Florin, 12
Karrentari make a Roman Paul, Spanish Pistols are also
good money here and are worth 7| Florins. In going out
of the different dominions in Germany which come very
quck, some times twice in a day, you must take care to
get rid of j^our silver money, for what passes in one terri-
tory will not pass for the same in another, and they are so
intricat and different little coins I can give no account of
them.
In every toun where you stay a day or more you may
hier a servant that knows the place and can conduct you
every where, there is always plenty to be had, but you
must get your Land Lord to recomend and answere for
their honesty, since there are many rogues amongst them,
their constant pay is a Testoon " a day, or the value of it
alike all over Italy.
For seeing churches and palaces and most other places
give a Testoon, if you see any Sovereign's house you must
give two Testoons, if you have audience of any Sovereign,
the guards and servants expect some thing to drink, half
a Pistol amongst them all is sufficient. At Rome a Croun
* los. 5d. - IS. 6d.
390 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
is enough to the Pope's. At the great seasons of the year
if you are there they come again, as likewise the servants
of all the Italian houses you go to, who also constantly
come the day after you have been at their house the first
time for some thing, two Testoons is enough to give them
and the first time only, and again at Christianmass and
Easter. If you walk often at Villas you need not give
every time. A Testoon now and then is sufficient.
At Rome you must have an antiquary to conduct and
show you the antiquatys and raretys who ^vill always atend
you when you send to him when you go to see any thing.
5 Pistols is enough to give him for all when you go away.
Through your whole journey you will be often stopt at
coming into every different dominion to serch your trunks
for merchandise as they call it. Telling them they may look
if they please, at the same time assuring them you have
non, and giving them a little money, will free you from any
trouble, sometimes a Paul in France, one, two or three
livers accoridng as you have things about you to be
affrayd of a strict serch.
At every place you stay at, any acquaintens you meet,
or in some things your Land Lord will inform you of the
general price of things, such as the hier of your coach,
how much a head for eating. All over France the general
price is 25 ^ sols a head for diner, and 30 ^ sols for super
and bed. But then you must make your agreement or
they will make you pay a great dale more and you will
not be better served. In Italy you only say when you come
into your Inn you eat a Pasto and there is a fixt price all
over Italy for diner and super. I think it is 2|- ^ Pauls
at diner and 3 * pauls at super.
Going in to Italy over the Alps
We were not at Leghorn nor Genoua so can give you no
derections about them. If you go to Genoua Mr. Jackson
the King's Consul there will be of great use to you, he is
an honest, civil, good naturd man.
1 IS. Id. - IS. 74d. 3 IS. 3^cl. * IS. efd.
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You are caryd over Mount Senis in chairs by men, for
which you give a Pistol a piece, and your chaises and bagage
by mulls for which you must make the best bargen you can,
there will be fifty people tearing you to pieces to be em-
ployd.
Turin
The first toun you come to worth notice here you may
see all in two or three days. Some houses of the King's
a little way out of town worth seeing, a noble prospect
from them. If there is a British ]Minister there go to him.
Milan
Here you may stop three or four days. There is many
things worth seeing, the great Church St. Paolo and others,
the Hospital, the Pest house, the house where the Ecco
repeats above fifty times ^ etc., the Boromean Islands
near Milan, which are fine, if you go will take up 3 days to
go and return. In the way to Milan see the Chartereax
at Pavia.
At Piacenza stop a day to see the Dukes Palace and the
Theater.
At Parma — a day to see the galery of pictures and the
famous Theater.
At Regio there is nothing, but within two mills out of
the road there is a new house of the Prince of Modena's
in the French tast worth seeing, to see how inferior it is
to the Italian Palaces, etc.
At Modena — a day or two to see the Duke's Palace, etc.
Bologna
This will take up a week. Inquire for Mr. Magnoni a
banker in our name. He will be of great use to you when
he knows who you are, and is an honest man, ask also for
Sigre. Barnachi - the famous singer and Sigre. Sandoni ^
the husband of the Cuzone, they will be pleasd to be of
service to any of our family. See the Institute — the
Churches — Palazo Sanpieri, Palazo Tavi — Pal. Bonfiglioli
' This is the ' Ecco ' Lady Grisell paid 3s. 5d. ' for seeing.'
* See p. xlix. ^ See p. xlix.
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— Pal. Zambeccari — Pal. Magnani — Pal Monti. They are
best stored with paintings. The Toun house cald Palazo
Publico. Without the toun the Convents of St. Michall
in Bosco, the Certosa and Capuchins. There is here the
famous Signora Laura Bassa, a learned lady who is made a
doctor ; she is very affable good company and makes
straingers wellcome that come to see her ; Mr. Magnoni
will introduce you to her.
At Loretta half a day is enough where there is only the
Santa Cassa and the riches in it to be seen.
Betwixt Loretta and Rome you must see the famous
cascade at Terni, which is but 2 or 3 leagues going and
coming out of your road.
At Rome
Here so many things are to be seen that it will take you
up some months and you must have an antiquary to con-
duct and show you every thing. The only one I know is
Sigre. Marco Parker al Caffe Inglese in Piazza di Spagnia.
He is an English man and cousen to Mr. Parker the Beedle
at Oxford.
At Naples
Here you need no derections, only inquire for the Marquis
Rinuccini, Mr. Consul Allen and Mr. Hammond, who are
so good friends of ours they will conduct and derect you
in every thing. I only desire you woud wait upon Made-
moiselle Louise Cagnony and her sister where ever they
are and they will make you acquainted with any other of
our friends. See Portici, where we lived, and Soriento,
where we past some time very agreeably.
A list of posts from Naples to England by way of
Germany which we came ourselves and what is worth
seeing in the different places we came to.
Naples to Rome posts to pay
Naples to Aversa, Post Royall . . . • 1^
To Capua ........ 1
To Francolino ....... 1
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posts to pay
To St. Agata ....... 1
To Carigliano where there is a river to pass, pay 3
carlini for each Chaise. . . . . .1
To Mola ........ 1
Here you show your pass which you get at Naples
and pay some thing to avoid having your trunks opend.
2 carlins.
To Itri . . . . . ■ . . .1
To Fondi 1
To Terracina where ends the Neapolitan State and
there is a chain where you pay one Carlino per
Chaize ........ 1
To Capaccie ....... 1
To Piperno ........ 1
To Casa Nuova ....... 1
To Sermoneta ....... 1
To Cisterno . . . . . . . .1
To Veletri ■ . . .1
To Marino ........ 1
Here they will insist upon puting 3 horses to each
shaise which they cannot oblige you to, having no order.
To Torre di Mezza via . . . . . .1
To Rome ........ 1
in all 18|
At going into any great toun you pay only common
post, at seting out from a great toun you pay Post Royal,
which is a post and a half for only one post of way. Coming
into Rome they drive you directly to the Customehouse
to have your bagadge serched. Give a Festoon, and if
they do not suspect you have counterband goods, they
will be very sivil and just open your trunks and look
into them, but if you have any thing seasable you loose
it if they find it. Put your Bibles or prayer book in your
pocket or hide them in the sate of the chaise which is
seldome serched, or they will certainly take them from you,
or any English books they think heretical.
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In the Neapolitean State you pay 11 Carlini per chaise
every post and 3 Carlini to each postilion.
In the Roman State you pay 8 Pauls for your horses
every post for each chaise, 2 Pauls to each postilion and
3 pauls for a single horse.
Rome to Florence
Rome to La Storta, post Royal
• •
•
«
n
Passing the gate 1 paul per chaise
To Baccano ....
. 1
To Monte Rossi
. 1
To Ronciglione
. 1
To the Mountain of Viturbo
. f post] 6 pauls each
ToViturbo ....
f post per chaise
To Monte Fiasconc
.1
To Belsena do not ly here
. 1
To St. Laurenzo
f of a post ) 6 pauls each
To Acqua Pendente
1 of a post ) per chaise
To Centino .
. 1
To Re di Coffano a good place
to
ly at .
ii
To Rieorso .
To La Scala .
To Torriero .
To Bon Convento .
To Montarone
To Sienna
Here see the dome and church, they are fine pices of
Gothick Archetecture, the Chapel Chigi is very rich, the
floor of the church deserves particular notice, it is the
finest in Europe and make them take the boards of the
pavement. Off the church see the Library painted in
Fresco after the desins of Ra])hael, oposit to the Church
see an hospital erected by a shoe maker, see the Market
place. Sennesino ^ that was so long in England has a house
^ Francesco Beinardi detto Senesino, one of the most famous sopranists of
the century, born about 1680 at Siena, received his musical education from
Bernacchi, and was brought to England by Handel. ' In 1739 Senesino was liv-
ing in Florence, and sang a duet wilh ihe Archduchess Maria Tleiesa there.
He died about 1750.' — Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
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here and will be glad to see you if he is at home. Lodge
at the 3 kings.
Sienna to Castiglioncello
To Pogibonsi
To Le Tavernelle
To St. Cassiano
To Florence .
1
1
1
1
1
A French house in the Via Magia is the best to lodge at,
where we were well used, Collins's, an English house there,
is generally full and not the most reasonable. All English
houses or any English body you employ abroad for any
thing are generally the first and readyest to impose upon
you, therefor to be avoided, or at least be much upon your
guard.
If Mr. Mann is stile Resident here he will conduct and
take care of you in every thing. In case he is not I set
down what follows. See the galary, which imploys you
several days, ask for the Copys in Brass of the 4 famouse
status that are in the Tribuna, where there is inumerable
fine and curious things, as there is in every part and room
in that galery. The great Church, which is larger every
way then St. Pauls in London ; behind the great alter in
the dome is an unfinisht statue of a dead Saviour by
Michal Angelo. See Giotto's Tower from whence there is
a fine prospect of the Citty and Country. Observe the
gates of the Baptistry, particularly that facing the church.
It is the finest piece of work of that kind perhaps in the
world. The little chappel under St. Lorenzo where the
bodys of the great Dukes are reposited is the design of
Michal Angelo and several of the statues in it are by his
own hand. The Library of St. Lorenzo, the entrence into
it with the stairs are from the design of M. Angelo. The
Cloysters of the Annunciata are painted by Andrea del
Sarto and his scholars. The best are a Saint bringing to
life a dround boy, which is the first on your right hand
as you enter, and a Maddonna with Joseph leaning on a
sack oposit to the entry.
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In the Church of the Carmes is a handsome Chappel
belonging to the Corsini Family.
The Poggio Imperiale about a mile from toun is a
country seat of the Great Dukes, the apartments adorn' d
with valuable paintings and other fine furnitur.
Pratolino six mills from Florence another seat of the
Dukes. The great colossall statue in the garden, the water
works, the grotto, the Theatre in the house, all worth
seeing : when you are here ride the ring.
Boboli the Dukes garden is very fine, desire to see the
Menagery there, where George will be delighted with great
variety of all kinds of strange burds and beasts, if you have
any brass money in your pockets it will be very good food
for the Ostrich, in the uper part of the garden where the
Citronades grow there is a good statue of Adam and Eve
by Michel Ajigelo. You will have good luck if you escape
being wet when the water works plays, they are very
pritty.
The Capins a little way out of toun, beautiful road to
it, cows are keept there, fine chise, butter and cream,
people go there to breakfast, and there is several rooms
and arbers for company to sit in.
The Palaces best worth seeing are Pitti, Ricardi, Strozzi,
larini where there is a fine colection of paintings.
There is statues and paintings to be seen in the old
palace belonging to the Duke, you must send over night
to have leave to see the Wardrobe. The Dukes coaches
are worth seeing.
The apartment of the Electrise is well worth seeing.
There are good statues in the streets as a Herculus and
Centaur by John de Bologne, a Rape of the Sabins by the
same, a man suporting his dead friend antique. Take
notice of the beautys of the Ponte Santa Trinita.
Florence to Bologna posts
Florence to Uccellatojio, Post Royal . . .1
Near Uccelatojio is a house of the Dukes cald Prato-
lino, where are many fine water works, you pay some
thing more to the Postilions to bring horses from
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 397
posts
the next post to cary you on when you have don seing
the house.
To Ponte Assieme ....... 1
Here if you have much baggage they can oblige
you to put 3 horses to each Chaise or take your
baggage off and cary it on horses, the will endeavour to
make you do both. We took 3 horses for the two bad
posts only and did not take off our baggage.
To Giogo . . . . . . . • li
To Fiorenzolo a good place to ly at . . . • lo
To Tilligare 1
To Sojano ........ 1
The Pope's Dominions
To Pianore . . . . . . . • 11
To Bologna . . . . . . . • li
101
Lodge at the Pellegrino and see page 17 for what is to
be seen.
Bologna to Venice
Bologna to St. Giorgio, Post Royal . . . • ll
To St. Carlo a river to pass pay 1 paul per Chaise . li
To Forrara ........ 2
Here in the churches are good paintings but few by
men of note. See the Senola della Madona Delia Cir-
concisione. Cardinal Rufo, Bishop of the place, has
a fine collection of paintings. Lodge at St. Marco.
Ferrara to Francolino . . . . . .1
6
At Francolino we took water to Venice. We hierd two
piotte (having 3 chaises in company), for which we payd
at the rate of a hunger to each man that rowed. You may
go by land but it is excessive bad road and dear. You
will be two days going and must take provision^ in the
boat with you. We coud neither get beds nor any thing to
eat the night stopt by the way.
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At Venice
Lodge at Monsieur D'Henrys on the great Canall where
we were well used and cheap. See the Church and Pro-
curatories of St. Mark. The smal church dedicated to St.
Geminiano, which stands at one end of the Place of St.
Marks, was built by Sansovino. INIr. Law ^ that made such
a figur in France in the Messasipie year your country
man is buried there. If Mr. Consul Broun be alive who is a
worthy honest Scots man send to him and he will do every
thing for you when he knows who you are. Your hierd
servant will cary you to all the churches worth seeing.
In the Church and Convent of St. Giorgio Maggiore are
fine paintings by Titian, Tintoret and other masters of the
Venetian school, in the refectory is the famous Marriage
of Cana by Paul Veronese. There is good paintings in the
schools of St. Rocco and St. Marco. The Palaces best
worth seeing are Grinani — Maniani — Grassi — Delphino —
Pisani — Barberigo. The Doge's Palace and the Courts
of Justice are adornd with fine paintings of Titian, Tintoret,
Paul Veronese, Bassan, etc. Observe in going into the
Palace the statues of Adam and Eve much esteemd. The
Arsenal is well worth seeing and the Treasury and Towr
of St. Mark. The Library of St. Mark contains several
fine busts, statues and other remains of antiquaty, the
roof is finely painted. The Realto, a bridge over the great
Canal, is very fine and many fine buildings by Paladio.
Eat Serbetti at a house near St. Marks famous for making
every thing in Ice the best of any place, it is like a Coffie
house.
Venice to Padua
We went by water doun the Brent, hierd a Bercello
which is a large boat, for which we payd 48 pauls ; it con-
veniently holds a great many with chaises and baggage,
and is a most agreeable way of going, great numbers of
fine houses being all along that river.
^ The well-known John Law, born in Edinburgh 1 68 1, died in Venice in
poverty in 1729.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 399
At Padua
Lodge at the post house, see the Church of St. Guistina,
it is one of the finest in the world, was built after a plan
of Palladio's, the Convent behind the Church is very
pritty, the Libary and Cellers are commonly seen by
straingers. The Church of St. Antonio di Padua. The
Chappel del Santo. The Bas relief that adorns it is the
history of his life and miracls, very fine ; the Scuola di St.
Antonio is well painted by Titian. See the toun house in
which is the Monmnent of Titus Livius the Roman His-
torian ; see the Garden of Simples and Papafava. It is a
large toun once well inhabited and fine Colleges for study-
ing and many students but now quite ruinous and no
body there.
Padua to Vicenza
Posts
Padua to Slesega . • 1 1 Here you pay 16| jjauls
To Vicenza . . • 1 J P^i' chaise each post.
Vicenza, lodge at the post house. The tounhouse is a
noble pice of Archetectui-e. Many of the Palaces within the
toun were built by Palladio or Sansovano and are esteemd
the best in Italy. The Olimpick Theatre is a noble work of
Palladio's. The Triumphal Arch as you go out of toun, the
house of Marquis Capra a little way out of toun is well
worth seeing, it is cald the Rotunda.
Vicenza to Verona
Posts
Vicenza to Montebello . . . . . .1
To Caldier li
To Verona ........ l
Lodge at the due Torre. See the Amphetheatre, it coud
contain 23,000 spectators — the Arsenal — the Dome — II
Giardino Gusto — the Church of St. George — the Academia
Philarmonica.
From Padua quite through the Venetian State there
can be no regulation for the price of post horses, they will
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have what they please, there being no limited order. We
some times payd 18|, 16| and 15 pauls per chaise, and in
proportion for a single horse. It being thought dear
makes most people go by Voiturino's, but it is a mistake.
We endeavourd to agree with those people from Venice
to Trent, but found afterwards their demands was realy
more then it cost us post : they woud have taken double '
time with all the inconveniences of rising, etc., that
atend traveling that way.
Verona to Trent
Posts
Verona to Volarni . . . . . . • 1|
A river to pass pay 2 pauls per chaise.
To Peri ........ 1
A difficult passage where they take out the horses
and dragg the chaises up by men about 200 yards.
We payd for 3 chaises 22 pauls.
To Kala ........ 1
To Roveredo . . . . . . . .1
To Trent 2
From Verona hither we payd 15 pauls a chaise per post.
See the church where the Counsell was held in which is a
very fine organ, hear it play, it is extream curious. See
St. Peters, where is keept the body of St. Simion, a child
murderd by the Jews. Lodge at the Golden Rosan.
Here you must put an avan train to your chaise, for
which you pay from 22 to 25 florins a pice. You may
find them ready made, but further on you must wait the
making ; you cannot travel without these fore carriages,
they not being used to drive as in Italy. Care must be
taken to fit the axletrees of your chaise to your anan
trains that they may both run in the same tract. Have the
fore wheels higher then they commonly are if you can get
them. The people there are used to fit them as they
shoud be. Here the mony changes to Hungars, Florins
and Karrentari, see page 11.
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Trent to Inspruck
Trent to St. Michale the first post in the Imperial
dominions after which no more Italian spock nothing
but Germans . ...... 1
To Equa ........ 1
Those two posts you pay one Florin per horse and 3
horses to each chaise.
Posts
here you pay 45
Karrentari for
each 3 quarters
of a post.
To Bradnol . . . . .
5
To Bolsano . . . . .
f
ToTentschen . . . .
f
To Colman ....
3
4/
To Brixen a good place to ly at
To Mittewald
1
To Sterzingen
To Brenner ....
4
1
To Stainack ....
To Scamberg
To Inspruck ....
3
4
45
Karrentari each.
At each whole post you pay one Florin per horse and
put 3 horses to a chaise. At the 3 quarters of a post you
pay 45 Karrentare, which is three fourth parts of a Florin,
and at every post you pay 24 Karrentari to the Postillions.
Lodge at the Golden Rosen, see the Franciscans Church, a
pent house belonging to the toun house, and the Emper-
ours Garden. The pent house is coverd with gold plate.
Inspruck to Munick
Posts
Inspruck to Seafield . . . . . .2
you hier an additional horse at the half way house
and not at Inspruck which they will endeavour to
make vou do.
To Mittewald
To Waller — see a very odd place
To St. Bennedict Buren .
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To Wolfertshousen
To Munick .
Posts
. 2
. 2
8
Lodge at the Daler and not at the Soliel d'Or ; it is an
imposing house. See the Elector of Bavaria's 3 houses, that
in the toun, Slysham about 4 mills out of toun, and as you
go on your way to Auxburg see Nymfenberg, it is in the
post road. The Jesuits Church is fine ; the whol toun very
pritty. The Elector has many fine houses and all well
furnished, but without taking up too much time you can
see no more but these three, they being at a distance from
the toun. Beware here of any bodys coming to you on
pretence of showing you the place. We were imposed upon
by one who pretended to be a gentleman orderd by the
Elector to atend staingers and was the only bite we met
with in out whole journey. One cannot be enough upon
ones guard ; there being folks in all places upon the watch
for straingers, to pick their pockets in any way they can
best. Your hierd servant or your Land Lord will inform
you of every thing to be seen and get a coach for you.
Munick to Auxburg
Posts
U
Munick to Pruch ......
Pruch to digenpank . . . . . • 1|
To Auxburg . . . . . . . • li
Lodge at the Raisin d'Or, see the secret gates of the toun
and toun house. They work plate finely here. It is
worth going to the great Silver Smiths shope to see it.
Auxburg to Frankfort
Posts
Auxburg to Meeintenham
. . . H
To Donnawert ....
. . . n
To Winding
. ii
ToAding
. 1
To Dinkenpil ....
. . . ii
To Kreilsheim ....
. 1
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To Blauslelden . . . . . . . 1^
Posts
1
2
To Mergentheim, this belongs to the Prince of Anspach
— Lutherans . . . . . . • 1^
To Bischofsen, belongs to the Prince of Holsten —
Catholicks ....... 1
To Mittenberg, belongs to the Elector of Mayence —
Catholicks ....... 2
To Aschafsenberg El. of Mayence . . . .2
To Dettingen ....... 1
To Hannaw see the Prince's house here . . .1
To Frankfort, lodge at the Bone Noir on the Parrade.
See the Cathedrall and Protestent Churches . 1
Frankfort to Collogne. See page 44
We went by water doun the Rhine in two days and a
half. We hierd two boats, one for ourselves close coverd
like a Pleasur Barge upon the Tames, in which we lay all
night upon good straw and Pillows for our heads, and
never went on shore. An open boat for the servants and
chaises. We payd 75 Florins for all. Taxes included, of
which there are many at every toun you pass by. It was
in the sumer and no danger of catching cold. We
caryd our provitions, had tea water boyld and every thing
dresst in the Boat with the servants which was tyd to ours.
The water men or servants went on shore at any toun we
came to and got us what ever we wanted.
At Collogne lodge at the St. Esprit, see the toun and
chiu'ches here or at Frankfort, get rid of your avan trains,
which you may now go without, and will be of no use to
you in Flanders, sell them for what you can get tho less
then you payd. We left 3 at Spa thinking they offerd us
too little for them at Frankfort ; they are yet unsold. At
the entrence into Germany they are wanted and necessary
for people going in, and by chance you may sell them for
what you gave, but take any thing reither then leave them
to be sold at a better price which they will perswade you
to do and you never hear more of them.
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n
see page 45
Collogne to Aix la Chappelle
Posts
Collogne to Bergen ......
To Juliers ........
To Aix la Chappelle ......
Lodge at Florentins near the Spring, see the Cathedrall
— Toun house — Baths — Ramparts — where they drink the
waters, etc.
Aix la Chappelle to Spa
There is no post, we hierd 3 horses to each chaise and
payd 12 Eskillins per horse. The whole toun is lodging
houses, you pay an Eskillin a night for each room, eat
at the Ordinary. Mr. Hay a Scotsman is a Banker there, he
knows us well and will be of service to you, he also lets
lodgeings. See all the fountains round the toun. The
Capuchins garden where all the Company walk.
Spa to Leige
We hierd 2 horses to each chaise, payd 12 eskillins per
horse, dyn at Chaude Fontaine half way, see the Baths
and the mashine for rasing the water which is a little like
the great one at Marli.
At Leige lodge au Mouton Blanc, see the great Church.
The English Jesuits Convent, ask for Father Phillips who
is a Cannon of Leige, he will be glad to show you sevility,
you saw him at Oxford.
From Frankfort to Collogne by land
Frankfort to Kuningstein
To Weirgas .
To Limperg
To Walmroth
To Frayling .
ToGutroth .
To Weyerbus
To Warth .
To Spieg
Posts
li
1|
1
1
1
1
1|
1
1
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Posts
To Collogne ........ 2
From Collogne to Utrecht if you prefer going by
Holland to tother road
Collogne to Nuyse ....... 2
To Hofstadt bad lodgeing . . . • .2
To Santen ....••. 2
To Cleeves ........ 2
To Nimeguen about 20 mills, lodge at White Swan.
To Utrecht about 35 mills, lodge au Chateau d'Anvers.
Frome Venice to Utrecht by this Route is computed
about 940 Enghsh mills.
From Leige to Brussells to follow the Route from
Page 44.
From Leige to St. Turon 3 horses to each Chaise if two
persons are in it, at 12 Eskillins for 3 posts which it is
reckond, it is at the rate of 4 Eskillins per post each horse,
at each barrier you pay 4 sols per chaise. Postillions at the
rate of one Eskillin per post.
Posts
To Tirelemon 3 Eskillins per post each Chaise . . 2
To Loven ........ 2
To Brussells ........ 3
10
Lodge at the Emperour. See the Cour — the Arch-
Dutches' s Palace and the Toun.
Brussells to Paris
Brussells to Tubise ...... 2|
To Brenlecourt . . . . • • 1^
To Chateau .....••• Ig
To Corignion by way of Mons which is half a league
about . . . • • • • -2
To Chivrein .....••• 1^
Here you are sercht. At 50 yards from Chivrein you
are sercht again, at entering into France, at entering
Valencienne again. We had little trouble by imediatly
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giving a little money, and without hesitation telling them
at the same time we gave the money that they might
serch if they pleasd for we had nothing counterband nor
any Merchandise which is the question they ask.
From Brussells to Valencienne you pay 3 Eskillins per
horse each post. If two people are in the Chaise you pay
for 3 horses tho you get but two and so it is generaly all
over France.
Posts
Chivrien to Valencienne . . . . -21
Lodge at Grand St. Martin. At every Bureau, which
is the same as our Custome house officers, they inquire
if you have old money, which is prohibited. If you have
any you must take care to hide it well, for some times
they serch very narowly, and if they find it you loose it,
but a little money given in time generaly j)revents it.
Posts
To Bushein ........
To Cambray ........
Here they serch slightly. Lodge at the post. See
the house Lord Marchmont lived in. He is stile rememberd
in this place with honour and affection, which you will
find if you go to the English Nunery, and but name him
and say you are related to him or indeed any where ells
in the whole toun.
Posts
To Metz en Conture . . . . . .2
To Peronne here you are serched again but no more
till you get to Paris
To Marche le pot .
To Fouches ....
To Roy ....
To Couche Le pot .
ToCuvilly ....
To Goiirnay a good place to ly at
To Bois de Lihu
To Point St. Maixence .
To Chantilly
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE 407
From Pont St. Maixence you go through the Duke of
Bourbon's fine Park and Gardens. When you come to
Chantilly lodge at the post house and stay a day to see
the house and Gardens, the finest thing to be seen in France.
Chantilh to Lusarche ...•••!
To Ecouen . . . • • • • • 1'2
To St. Denis where you see the Treasury of the Kings
of France who are cround and hurried there . 1
To Paris post Royal you pay . . • • -2
Here you get a little printed book of all the posts in
France which derects you very exactly.
Paris
Here we had privet lodgeings at the Hotel d'Ambour,
Rue de Tour, Fauxbourg St. Germain, payd 300 livers
a munth for all the first floor, containing 6 handsome well
furnished rooms, 3 rooms on the floor over it, a Hall for
servants and other conveniences.
A Tour we made to see some of the Kings houses
about Paris, October 1733
We set out with our own coaches, with only a pair of
horses. First to La Mutte, a hunting Seat of the Kings,
the house not fine, the gardens pritty. From that through
the Bois de Bologne to St. Cloud, a Seat of the Duke of
Orleans's, the Park and Gardens 6 Leagues round. From
that about a League to Mudon, a house of the Kings finly
situated. Thence to Versaills about 4 a clock and saw
part of the house that evening. Lodged at the Cadran
Blue. Next morning saw the rest of the house and gardens,
which woud take up more then a day. Saw the Menagery
where there is a smal house. Went through the Park
of Versaillies to Trianon, a very pritty house of the Kings
built of marble and fine gardens. From that to Marli,
an exceeding fine place. The house has 4 apartments, no
body gose there when the King gose but whome he names.
There is on each side of the house 6 pavillions in the
garden sourounded by trees, 2 familys can lodge in each.
Tho this place lys high yet it apears very low, being
408 THE HOUSEHOLD BOOK
surounded by high mountains, except towards the garden.
There is no water but what is supplyd by a vast machine
half a league below the house, which may be said to throw
the river Sein up a vast hill, which is there received in
reservoirs to throw it back again into the Garden, where
water abounds in all shapes. From Marli see the Machine,
which is composed of 14 vast wheels. From that to St.
Germans, a very fine place where King James and his
Queen died. It is quite ruinous, but capable of being
made the finest place the King has. The Castle is now
inhabited by Irish people of fashion adherents to that
King. The Tarrass is very fine. Here we lay the second
night at the Prince de Galles, and got to Paris next day by
diner.
To be seen more in and about Paris
Le Cabinet de Monsieur Le Due d' Orleans au Palais
Royal, where there is the finest colection of picturs in
France, or almost any where ells. That of the Holy
Family by Raphael valued at 5000 pound.
La Gallerie du Luxembourg, where there is fine paintings
of Rubens.
Lese Invalides.
L'Hotel du Mayne, Rue de Bourbon.
Le Palais de Madame La Duchess de Bourbon, proch
les Invalides.
L'Hotel d'Antin, Rue neuve St. Augustin.
L'Hotel d'Evreux, Fauxbourg St. Honore.
L'Hotel de Toulouze, proch la Place des Victoir.
La Bibliothique du Roy — Rue de Richelieu.
L'Observatoire.
Seaux. The Duke of Maynes house, 4 leagues from
Paris.
Vincennere, 1 league from Paris.
Bagnolet the Duke of Orleans's, 1 league.
St. Maur the Duke of Bourbon's, 2 leagues.
St. Ouen, 1 league.
Petitbourg, 6 Leagues.
Fountainebleau, 14 leagues.
OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
409
Choisy, 4 leagues.
Issy, the Princess of Conti's.
The Tuilleries.
The Louvre.
The Gallery of Fortifications.
Notre Dame.
The Chappell of Val de Grace.
The Chartreux Convent, where are paintings esteemd
good don by Le Sieurs.
The Chappelle of Carmalet Nuns, where is a pictur by
Guido for which Lord Burlington offerd 3000 pound, and a
Magdalen by Le Brune.
The Sorborne, where is Cardinal Richlieus Monument,
extream fine.
The Church of St. Sulpice.
Place Vandome.
Place Victoire.
Paris to Callais
Posts
Paris to St. Dennis, post Royall . . . .2
To Ecouen ....
To Lasarche ....
1 1
^2
To Chantilly
To Lingueville
• 1*
To Clermont, a good place to ly at
To St. Just ....
1 1
To Wavigny ....
To Breteul ....
ToFlors ....
11
J-2
To Habecour
To Amiens ....
To Piequigny
11
^2
To Flexcourt
To Haut Cloches . .
To Abbeville a good place to ly at
n
To Nouvion ....
n
^2
To Bernay .....
To Nampon ....
410 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Posts
To Montreal . . . . . . . • ll
To Frane ........ 1^
To Neuchatel ....... 1
To Boulogne ....... 1|
A good place to ly at, inquire for Mr. Smith, a wine
Merchant, a Scots man ; we had wine from him ; he
is very sivil and servisable to all his country folks.
From Boulogne to Marquise . . . . • I5
To Haut Buisson ....... 1
To Callais ........ 1
301
Here if you do not think it worth while to bring your
Chaises home and they are but unwildy and troublesome
in our country, sell them for what you can get. Some
times it happens people just come there wanting to go to
Paris or Italy will give you there value and be glad to get
them. If that dos not happen, the people there who
make it their business to buy chaises to sell again, will
give you very little for them, but take it reither then leave
them there to be sold. It will perhaps cost duble there
price for the hier of there standing and not to be sold at
last, as we found by two we left there.^
From Callais to Dover we hierd a little shipe, on of Mr.
Minets, 3 guineas is the common hier for the whol shipe,
if others are going you may get passage cheaper, either
in those boats or in the Kings packet boats that go con-
stantly. Ly at Dover at the Shipe. Your trunks and
baggadge.
^ ' They ask me here [Calais, 27 July 1739] extravagant prices for chaises, of
which there are great choice, both French and Italian : I have at last bought
one for fourteen guineas of a man whom Mr. Hall recommended me.' — Lady
Mary Worthy Montagu'' s Letters.
APPENDIX I
I. — State showing various articles mentioned in the accounts,
and their prices between the years 1693 and 1718. The
money, weighs and quantities appearing in the Accounts
are here reduced to money sterling, weight Avoirdupois
and quantity Imperial Liquid Measure.
Scotland.
Lonci<
3n. '
Present Day.
£
.9.
d.
£
*.
d.
£
0
«. d.
1 6
Almonds ....
p. lb.
0
0
11 -G
to
0
2 !»
Almond Biscuits
do.
0
1
0-4
. .*
Aloe Berries . . no p
rice given
■ . .
Anchovies
do.
• . •
Apples ....
p. barrel
1
10
0
1
• . .
Apples ....
per dozen
0
0
S»
0
0
2
Apples from Bemersideand
Bassendean
per doz.
0
0
8
• ..
Apples (French)
per doz.
0
1
0
...
...
Barley ....
p. lb.
0
0
1-4
0
0
3
0
0 n
Barley (pearl) .
}>
0
0
.3-0
0
0 2"
Bee skep ....
, ,
0
1
0
Bees wax. ....
p. lb.
0
1
1
0
1 10
Blue (washing), dearer after
[0
0
to
6-.5
0
0 Of
Union
p. oz.
lo
0
10-2
/
0
0
27
1
Butter (cheaper after Union)
p. lb.
lo
to
0
43
...
0
1 4
Butter from England
p. barrel
1
8
0
...
...
Camomile ....
no price
...
...
Candles (rag wick, 6, {{, 12,
1
and 20 totlie lb.)
p. lb.
0
0
2-9
Candles (cotton wick, G to
the lb.)
p. lb.
0
0
4-3
■ . ■
0
0 4
to
Candles (Irish),
p. lb.
0
0
3-8
• ..
\7
Candles (Mould, 0 and 10
/
0
0
to
0
G~\
)
0
ItXJ
0 8
to the lb.) .
p. lb.
...
1
0
7j
Candles (wax for lighting
tobacco)
p. lb.
...
0
2
G ,
411
412 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Scotland.
London.
Present Day.
£
*.
d.
£
*.
d.
£ *. d.
Capers . . • P- lb.
0
1
1
• < •
• > •
Carmel . . p. lb.
0
8
5-8
...
Caraway seeds . . no price given
• • •
• • •
• • •
Chalk, do.
0
0
2-2
...
...
Cheese (Best) ... p. lb.
0
to
0
3-6
0
0
3
0 0 10
„ (coarse) . . p. lb.
0
0
1-6
...
• . •
„ (Cheshire) . . p. lb.
. . •
0
0
3*
0 0 10
„ (Tweeddale) uo price given
. . .
...
Cherries to brandy ....
...
0
8
0
• . •
Do. to preserve . p. GOO
0
6
3
• • •
> • •
Chestnuts . . .no price given
(^
2
2-1
]
...
...
Chocolate . . p. lb.
t
to
2
11
]
...
0 1 10
Cinnamon ... p. lb.
0
9
8-3
0
10
0
0 2 8
Cinnamon water . . p. pint.
0
0
8-7
10
1p-
4 0
bottle
...
Citron peel ... p. lb.
0
1
111
0
3
0
0 0 8
Cloves . . p. lb.
0
9
8-3
0
11
0
0 1 10
1'
[o
2
6-5
1
/
Coffee Beans (unburned) . p. lb.
to
• • ■
0 1 8
3
3-2
Do. (roasted) . p. lb.
...
0
12
0
0 1 10
0 14
Coffee powder ... p. lb.
...
0
G
0-
to
0 1 10
(^
1
0
■
(
0 1 0
Corks . . . • p- gross
to
■
\
to
10
1
4
.
(
0 3 0
Corn flower . . no price given
< . •
• . •
...
Cucumbers, ... p. pint
0
6
0
...
fO o" 3*
Currants, . p. lb.
0
0
G-5
0
0
5h
( to
|0 0 5
Figs . . . . p. lb.
0
1
0-7
• • •
Fish-
Barrel containing 30 salt cods
1
0
0
. . .
Herrings p. barrel, exclusive
1'
15
to
7
0
of carriage ....
ii
G
...
Herrings (Glasgow) . p. barrel
1
(5
8
...
„ (Lewis) . . „
1
1
8
• • •
■ . •
„ (Hempstead) . „
0
10
8
■ • •
• • .
„ (Dunbar) „
0
17
H
...
„ fresh to salt for
„ servants . p. 1000
0
G
8
Killine (dried) , each
0
0
8
...
■ • •
Ling
0
1
0
0
0
"{
0 0 4
p. lb.
APPENDIX I
413
1 Scotland.
I
ondon. Present Day.
Fish — contd.
£
.V. ,1.
£
X. d.
• • •
Oysters .
. p. barrel
0
2 0
• . .
• • •
Oysters (pickled)
. p. barrel
• . •
0
2 0
• ••
Salmon for a year
• ■ ■
1
7 0
...
■ ■ •
Sturjjeon
p. little barrel
• • •
0
8 0
• • •
Trout .
price not given
• • •
• • •
Flambeaux
. each
r
lo
1 2^
to
1 4j
Ginger
p. lb.
0
0 58
...
0
1 4
Ginger bread
no price given
• ■ .
• ■ •
Ginger confected
p. pot
0
1 10
■ . •
0
2 0
Gooseberries to bottle
p. pint
...
0
0 1
...
Hartshorn jelly
0
1 G
Honey
. p. quart
0
0 8
...
...
Indigo
p. oz.
0
0 8-7
...
{^
0 2*1
to \
0 7 J
(
0
0 1
Lemons
each
]
... \
to
lo
1
0
0 1§
Lemons, syrup of
no price given
f^
0 7 1
to '
0 8 j
Loaves
each
0
0 5
lo
0
1 2 1
Mace
p. oz.
.0
to [
1 4 J
...
0
3 9
Milk Ewe.
p. pint
0
0 0-2
• . .
Mugwort water .
.
0
0 5
Mustard .
p. lb.
0
0 5-8
• . •
0
1 <5
Myrrh
• • ■
0
JO
0 4
0 4-4)
...
...
Nutmeg .
p. oz.
|o
to }
0 7-2)
0
0 8^
0
0 2
Nuts Pistachio .
p. lb.
• > •
0
2 0
0
3 (J
„ Spanish
p. pint
0
0
0 2-7
1 4^
to \
1 8 J
• • •
Oil salad .
p. pint
■
0
1 2
.0
Olives
.
0
(5 4
...
• . •
f^
0 0|^
to \
0 4 J
i
0
0 Oh
Oranges .
each
to
lo
0
0 2
Orange peel
p. lb.
0
1 11-2
1 4-3
0
\
3 0
0
0 6
Pepper
p. lb.
to
to
1 8-3
}
...
0
1 0
414 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Pickles
Pipes, tobacco
Plumbs, musk
Potash
Prunes
Pruuelles, box of
Quicknin
Raisins
Ratafia
Rhubarb
Rice
Rolls .
Saffron
Safjo . .
Salt .
Saltpetre
Seed for birds
Shortbread .
Snuff .
Snuff tobacco
Soap (Newcastle) .
Soap
Spermaceti .
Spice .
Spirits of Wine .
Starch .
Sugar, candibord .
„ coarse
„ kitchen .
no
price given
p. doz.
no
price giveu
p. lb.
p. lb.
li lb.
D. lb.
no price given
p. oz.
p. lb.
p. doz.
p. lb.
p. peck
price given
p. lb.
price given
p. lb.
p. lb.
no
no
no
p. firkin
do.
price given
p. lb.
p. pint
p. stone
p. lb.
Scotland.
£ s. d.
0 0 * 2i
to
0 0 .3
0 0 4-5
0 0 4-3
0 0 1
'0 0 3-8)
to
.0 0 5-8j
0 2 21
ro 2 2 1
lo 4 4 J
0 0 4i
0 4 4
0 0 2-9
0 0 7-2
(0 18 5 \
(l 2 0 J
ro 12 0 )
lo IG 6 J
0 i 1
fO 0 8 1
(o 0 11 J
ro 2 Qh \
lo 3 4i J
fO 0 9-4)
to
U 1 1 J
ro 0 3G1
to \
lo 0 8 J
0 0 6*
London.
£ *'. d.
0 2 0
0 0 4
.0 3 10
0
0
4
3
2'
0
0 4 0
0 12 9
0 1 U
0 0 8
0 0 4
Present Day.
£ *. d.
0 0 Oi
0 0 7'
0 0 4
'0 0 2
to
.0 0 4i
0 0 6"
0 0 2|
0 0* 2i
0 5 6
0 12 6
0 14
0 0 4
0 0 4
0 0 If
J
APPENDIX I
415
Scotland.
London. {
Present Day.
£ *. d.
£ *.
d.
£
s. d.
Sugar, powdered .
• • •
0 0 4-3
0 0
(!
0
0 3
Syrup, balsamic .
.
...
0 12
0
...
Tartar, red .
p. lb.
0 0 7-2
fO 16 0 1
to
U 9 1 J
ro 16
«1
oj
»
Tea, Bohea .
p. lb.
] to
ll 1
0
1 6
,, Green .
p. lb.
0 14 7
• • •
f
to
„ Hyson .
p. lb.
• • •
1 12
0
0
3 0
,, Pekoe .
p. lb.
• • *
1 4
0
Chocolate .
p. lb.
0 7 4-8
• • •
J
Tobacco
p. lb.
0 1 5-4
0 2
0
0
9 4
AV'afers
.
0 1 0
...
• • •
Varnish
no price given
...
...
...
Vinegar
p. pint
0 0 4
...
0
6 3
II. — List of Wikes, Ales and Si'irits, and their prices,
between 1693 and 1718.
Ale, English
Ale from H.Y.i
Aquavitae ....
Arrac ....
Beer —
Small beer from Abbey Hill *
Brandy ....
Burgundy ....
Canary ....
Champagne
Claret ....
p. pint
p. pint
p. pint
p. doz.
p. pint
p. pint
p. flask
p. gal.
p. bottle
p. doz.
Scotland.
£ *. d.
0 0 1
0 0 O5
0 0 63
5 4 0
0 0 OJ
0 0 8]
to
0 1 8 J
0 7 6
r 0 6
\ to
I 0 7
f 0 4 0 1
I 0 7 0 J
1 13 2
r 5 0 0 W27 0 0 ]
p. hogshead \ to \,\ to ,-
I2.5 0 0 J 147 0 0 J
0 13 .5
London.
Z s. c
2 2 0
I P-
4 0
to
4 ()
bottle
^ Perhaps Harry Younger's Abbey Hill Brewery. Beer is also got from
Dunfermline, Dundee, and Leith.
416 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Emetic wine
Scotland.
£ *. d.
0 7 0
London.
£ *. d.
Florence wine .
French wine
Fruntimack, Frontignan .
p. doz.
p. hogshead
p. pint
0
0
15
0
to
5
1
0
:}
9
■ • •
Gineva, bought in England
rhubard
Green wine
along with
p. gal.
0
"7
1
• • •
Hermitage
. p. bottle
1
0
0
4
to
6
"1
0 .
Madeira . .no price given
Malaga p. doz.
Mum p. pint
1
0
1
0
1
6|
...
Pontack from Bordeaux
Port
p. hhs.
p. doz.
• • •
34
0
16
18
7
0
Sack
Sherry ....
Sherry sack . . .
p. gal.
p. pint
p. hhs.
0 6
0 0
16 13
1
11
4
...
White wine for physic
p. pint
0
1
4
• • ■
III. — Pricks of Cattle, Sheep, Poultuy, etc.,
between 1693 and 1718.
Cattle. Milk cows
Holland cow .
Cows for killing
Calfs
£3 2 6
18 4
1 12 0 to £2 7 0
0 3 6 to 0 10 0
0 6 8
Skin and tallow of a cow, worth . _ _ _
Beef, back, say, and rump, 5s. ; h leg of beef, 7s. ; in England,
3d. p. lb.; Veal, leg of, 2s. Id.; leg of veal from Berwick,
5s.
Sheep. Rams, 15s. 6d.; Ewes, 5s. to 10s. each; Sheep for servants,
about 5s. each ; Lambs, Is. 8d. to 4s. each ; skin of a
sheep, wortli about Is. 4d.; killing sheep, 6d.; Mutton,,
leg of, 5s.; in England, 3|d. p. lb.
Pigs. Pigs, £1 to £1, 5s. each ; hams in Scotland, 7s. each ; in
England, hams (Westphalian), Gd. to lid. p. lb.; other
hams. Is. 2d. p. lb.
Birds. Hens, 5d., capons, 8d. each; chickens, 2f each; turkeys.
Is. 4d. to 3s. Id. each ; geese, lOd. each ; goslings, 6d.
each ; carrying same from Border, Id. each ; grey plovers,
6d. p. pair; green plovers, 5d. p. pair; wild ducks, 4d.
to 6d. each ; small teal, 4d, each.
APPENDIX I
417
IV.— Prices of Fuel between 1693 and 1718.
Scotland.
London
Coal—
£
A'.
d.
£
s.
d.
Carberry
p. cart
0
4
8
...
Carlops .....
p. load
0
1
0
Woolmit
p. dale
0
9
0
...
Clackmannan, put down in the close
p. dale
0
9
6
...
Alloa
p. ton
0
6
8
Carting same from Leith
p. ton
0
9
*4
2
• • •
Etal (Northumberland) —
Small coal ....
p. load
0
0
3
...
Great coal ....
p. load
0
0
G
...
Cost of carrying same .
p. load
0
0
9
fl
14
0
Scots coal
p. ton
-
u
n
to
16
8
0
0
Coal
p. ton
...
V.
to
0
0
Peat . .
p. stack
0
3
4
...
Charcoal p
. bushel
0
4
6
Billets of wood
p. 100
...
0
1
4
Roots and brushwood used in England
.
...
• >•
Note. — There is nothing in the accounts to show what weight is repre-
sented by the words 'dale,' 'cart,' and 'load.' A dale, how-
ever, seems to be used as synonymous with a ton, and as we see
from the Accounts (1703) that it took two carts to carry a dale,
a cart probably represents a h ton. A load nowadays means
8 cwt., and it probably meant the same then.
In Loudon the Accounts show that a cart carried nearly a
ton (I).
\
2n
418 . HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
APPENDIX II
Statemknt showing money wages per annum of servants, etc.
Scotland
London
Continent.
Prior to 1714.
In
1740.
I7I8.
1732-
£ .V. d.
£
s. d.
£ s.d.
£ *. d.
Master Household .
5 0 0
• ■ ■
• . .
• .. ••■
Butler .
3 0 0
r 1 13 4 )
14
0 0
I'4'o Oj
le 0 oj
...
Footman
to \
5
0 0
• ■ • ...
I 2 10 0 j
Coachman
\ to "-
I 4 0 0 j
8
0 0
13 0 0
i
1
f 1 10 0 1
{ to [
1. 2 0 0 J
Groom .
2
10 0
...
1
Postillion
2
0 0
• ••
...
Carter
...
4
0 0
... ...
Valet . . . 1
3 0 0
. . •
5 0 0
... ...
Barnman
2 3 4
■ 4 0 0 1
...
...
...
Gardener
with house
5 0 0
without
{ A 0 Q \
14
0 0
...
...
Housekeeper .
to
Is 0 0 J
5
0 0
...
• • • • • •
Ladysmaid
3 fi 8
5
0 0
5 0 0
...
( 1 13 4 ^
\ to
I 3 0 0 J
(G 0 0)
18 0 Oj
10 10 0 Spa
Cook
8
0 0
16 16 0 Naples
f 1 12 0 '
] to
I 2 0 0 J
Under Cook .
3
0 0
• • ■
3 12 0 Naples
f 1 3 4 )
to \
I 2 10 0 J
Kitchen Maid .
2
0 0
■ • •
* • • • ••
f 1 13 4 )
■' to
I 2 10 0 .
(4 0 0|
Chambermaid .
2
0 0
(5 0 0)
3 12 0 Naples
1 This was the Baillies' Scots coachman, so £t, cannot be fairly regarded as
the English wage.
APPENDIX II
419
Scotland
London
Continent.
Prior to 1714.
In
1740.
1718.
1732.
£ A-. d.
£
s. d.
£ .V. d.
£ *. d.
f 1 14 0 1
Laundry maid .
to
2
0 0
• • ■
... ...
I 1 17 4 J
Frencli Maid .
• . *
. . .
3 0 0
Nurse
3 () 8
. . .
. ..
M'oman to wait on
Children
5 0 0
Dairy Maid
2
0 0
Fowl and swine girl
1 "4 0
. . .
A\'^oman to wash and
spin
1 14 0
...
Woman haymaking-,
without food
0 0 3|
p. day
P'ield labourer. Do.
0 0 5
p. day
...
...
Thresher, Do.
0 0 11|
p. day
...
...
Herd, without meat
...
5
0 0
...
Officer, Do.
...
7
5 0
...
Tradesmen in Scotland prior to 1714 : Tailor, 4d. p. day and food ;
mason. Is. p. day ; wright, lOd. p. day ; thatcher, Is. p. day. Drystone
dykes cost Is. p. rood, and turf dykes 8d. p. rood.^
^ See note, p. Ixiii.
420 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
APPENDIX III
Note of Fees paid in connection with Education in Edinburgh
except where otherwise marked.
Stg.
£ s.
d.
Miss May Menzies Governess .
,
p. annum
8 6
8
Arithmetic ....
,
a quarter
1 0
0
Boolv-keeping ....
, ,
a course
3 2
0
Cooking- lessons
•
a course
1 6
0
Dancing —
A course to perfect Lady Grisell
(Edinburgh) . j
8 0
0
1
(1 3
^1
Children ....
•
p. month \
\ to
U 9
4
In London ....
,
p. month
3 4
6
Fiddler for same .
•
p. mouth
0 10
1 10
9
^1
Flute' lessons ....
• •
p. quarter
to
U 1
ol
French (London). To tlie French Mistress
p. month
0 10
0
French (London). To the French Master
p. month
1 1
fi
Geography ....
, ,
p. quarter
1 1
6
Harp lessons (London)
, ,
the first month
3 3
0
Italian Lessons (Naples)
, ,
p. month
0 18
7
Painting lessons
•
p. month
1 0
(1 9
0
7)
Playing (spinet and virginel)
•
p. (juarter
to
U 12
a!
Tuning do.
.
p. (juarter
0 4
10
Playing lessons, spinet (Naples)
.
p. month
0 18
0
Reading .....
.
p. quarter
0 4
10
To perfecting reading
•
• • •
1 10
(0 2
0
5)
Reading School .
•
p. quarter
to
(O 5
ro 12
4
Singing .....
•
p. month
] to
U 0
0
Singing (Naples)
,
p. month
0 18
0
Theory of Music. Thorough Bass
.
p. (|uarter
2 2
0
Viol lessons ....
,
p. month
1 0
0
^V^iting Lessons
•
p. month
0 4
10
1 Two flutes are bought, one for los. stg.
Prices of spinets and virginels are not given.
and the other for £i, 5s. stg.
I
APPENDIX IV
421
APPENDIX IV
TABLES OF SCOTS AND ENGLISH MONEY
AND MEASURES!
I. — Money
12 Scots pennies =1 Scots shilliiifj^ = l penny stg.
20 Scots shillings = 1 Scots pound =ls. 8d. stg.
A guinea = between £1, Is. and £l, 3s. 6d.
A jacobus = about £] , Hs.
A mark =l;>s. 4d. Scots =ls,
A rex dollar =7s. 3d.
A dollar =4s. 2id.
IJd.
stg.
II. — Measures of Extension
Scots Lineal Measure.
1 Scots inch
= 1
l-OOKUG
imp. inches
8-88 Scots
inches = 1 link
8-89435
^? 53
1-35 Scots link
s =1 Scots foot = 12-0194
y y >y
3,V Scots feet
= 1 ell
37-0598
)} }>
6 e'lls
= 1 fall
= 222-3.588
?y a
4 falls
= 1 chain
= 889-4352
}> >}
10 chains
= 1 furlong
= 8894-352
yy yi
8 furlongs
= 1 mile
= 71154-816
or 1970-522
imp. yds.
Imperial Li 12
'^al Measure.
7-92
imp.
inches = 1
imp. link.
1-615
}}
links =1
„ foot.
3
}>
feet = 1
,, yard.
5^
>>
yards = 1
„ pole.
4
)>
poles = 1
„ chain.
10
7y
chains = 1
„ furlong.
8
>)
furlongs =1
,, mile, or 1700
yards.
III. — Measures of AVeight
(1) Scots Troyes or Dutch Weight raised from the Standard Lamirk Stone.
16 drops =1 ounce = 475-56 imp. troy grains.
16 ounces =1 lb. = 7608-95
16 lbs. =1 Lanark stone =121743195
^ The following measures are. taken from the tables, etc. published in 1827
by the authority of the Magistrates and Justices of the City and County of
Edinburgh.
422 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
(2) Imperial Troy Weight.
24 grains = 1 pennyweight — 24 imp. Troy grains.
20 pennyweights = 1 ounce = 480
12 ounces =1 lb. =5760
33
33
(3) Scots Tron Weight raised from the Edinburgh Tron Pound.
16 drops =1 ounce = 601 '417 imp. Troy grains.
16 ounces =1 lb. = 9622-67 „
16 lbs. =1 stone =15:3962 -72
33
33
33
33
33
(4) Imperial Avoirdupois Weight.
16 drams =1 ounce = 437'5 imp. Troy grains.
16 ounces = 1 lb. = 7000
14 lbs. =1 stone =98000
1 dale =1 ton.
1 Scots Troy pound =1 lb. 1 oz. 6'3 dr. imperial avoirdupois.
1 Edinburgh Tron pound = 1 lb. 6 oz. ,, ,,
Assuming that Lady Grisell in her Accounts used the Edinburgh Tron
Weight, it is necessary in order to compare the prices then and now to
multiply the quantity or divide the price by j^ = -iJ-.
IV. — Measures of Capacity
26'0.508 imp. cubic inches.
52-1017
(1) Scots Liquid Measure.
4 gills =1 mutchkin =
2 mutchkins = 1 chopin =
2 chopins = 1 pint = 1042034
8 pints = 1 gallon = 833-6272
(2) Scots Dry Measure for Barley and Oats.
4 lippies = 1 peck = 807*576 imp.
4 pecks = 1 firlot = 3230-305
4firlots =lboll = 12921-222
16 bolls =lchalder =206739-546
A forpet, forper, or fourtpert = according to Jameson |^ of a peck,
or jijj^ of a firlot ; according to Lady Grisell it equalled ("jj of a firlot.
(') firlots =A Lothian boll.
1 boll oats = 10 stones weight.
2 bolls oats = 1 load =20 stone = 2| cwt.
A chalder =1 ton =160 stones.
1 cwt. = 8 stones.
3>
}>
}}
33
)}
)>
cubic
inches
33
33
33
33
33
3)
(3) Imperial Liquid or Dry Measure.
4 gill
2 pints
4 quarts
2 gallons
4 pecks
8 bushels
= lpiiit = 34-6.59
= 1 quart = 69-318
= 1 gallon = 277-274
= 1 peck = 554-548
= 1 bushel = 2218-191
= 1 quarter = 17745-526
1 Scots pint =3 imperial pints.
1 Scots peck = 1§ imperial pecks
imp. cubic inches.
APPENDIX IV 423
TABLES OF FOREIGN MONEY
Rotterdam, Leyden, Utrecht, GxldeRxMause (?), Buss(?), and Iampt
8 doits or duyten = 1 stur (stu vver ?). 1 doit or duyt = Ud. st^.
20stur =1 guilder. 1 stur =^",-j*^-
1 guilder =ls. lOd. stg.
j! Maastbicfit
G doits or duyten = 1 mark. 1 doit or duyt = -lid. stg.
10 marks = 1 skillin or schelling. 1 mark "^ o!^" "
37skillins =a guinea. 1 skillmg or schelling = 0-»cl. „
Aix LA Chapki.lk
6 doits =lmark. 1 doit -'l 2d. stg.
9 marks = 1 skilling. 1 mark = •74d. „
8 skillings = l crown. 1 skillnig = n-<od. ,,
1 crown =4s. 6d. „
Spa
4liers = lsou. 1 lier = "ITd. stg.
10 sous = 1 skilling. 1 sou = '(ud. ,,
1 skilling = 0 "Tod. ,,
'r^
French Money
20 sous =1 livre. 1 sou = -Cud. stg. to '"d. stg
3 livres = l ecu blanc. 1 livre = from Is. l^d. to Is. :id.
6 livres = l ecu grand.
24 livres = 1 louis.
Lorraine
20 sous =1 livre. 1 sou =;3nd. stg.
32 livres = 1 louisdor = a guinea. 1 livre- / "Sd. ,,
Burgundy and I'auis
20 sous =1 livre. J fou =-52d
24 livres = 1 louisdor = 1 guinea. 1 livre = lO^d. stg.
424 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Turin
20 sous = 1 livre.
9h livres =1 sequin = 26 carlins.
10 carlins = 1 ducat.
1 sou = "GSd . stg.
1 livre =ls. l"ld. stg.
1 carlin =4"8d.
1 ducat = nearly 4s.
1 sequin = ,, 10s. 5d.
20 sous = 1 livre.
14 livres = 1 sequin.
MiLLAN
1 sous = •4-5d. stg.
] livre =!)d. stg.
1 sequin = 10s. 5d.
Plasentia, Parma, Reggio, Modena, Loreto, Rome
10biocks(baiocchi) = l Julio or paul(paolo). 1 biock = •62d.stg.
10iuliosorpauls = ] Roman crown or scudo. 1 Julio or paul = 6|d. ,,
20Julios or pauls = 2 crowns = 1 sequin. 1 Roman crown = 5s.2|d. ,,
3juliosor pauls = l testoon. 1 sequin =10s.6d. ,,
Bologna
12 demis = 1 biock.
20 biocks = l livre = 2Julios or pauls.
10^ livres = 1 sequin.
1 demi = •0.5d.
1 biock = '(yd.
1 livre =ls.
10 grains = 1 carlin.
2 carlins = 1 terri.
10 carlins = 1 ducat.
Naples
1 grain = ■48d. stg.
1 carlin = 4 "Sd. ,,
1 ducat = nearly 4s. ,,
Venice
20 soldi = 1 lira.
21 liras =1 Florentine sequin.
22 liras =1 Venetian sequin.
1 soldo = 'Sd. stg.
1 lira = nearly 6d. ,,
1 sequin = 10s. 5d. ,,
Frankfort
60 karrentari =1 florin.
4 florins 15 karrentari = 1 hungar.
7^ florins = 1 Spanish pistole.
] karrentari = •47d. stg.
1 florin =2s. 4d. "2 ,,
1 liungar =10s. ,,
1 Spanish pistole = l7s. 7 "5
From LiioK to Calais
20 ous = 1 livre.
1 sous = *55d. stg.
1 livre = lid. ,,
APPENDIX IV
425
NoTKs as to SalakiivS and Wac.es in 1707 and now
1707.
Present
Time.
Increase.
£ s. d.
£
S.
d.
Judges ......
500 0 0
3,600
0
0
7-2
Church^ (1) Best Charges
138 17 9f
1,000
0
0
7-2
(2) Average Stipend
50 0 0
300
0
0
6
Educatwn.-
Ediiiburgh University.
Paid by
City.
Queen
Anne's
Crant.
Class
Fees.
1
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
Principal . .
Ill 2 2
111 2 2
1,600
0
0
...
Divinity . .
88 17 9
30 0 0
110 17 9
570
0
0
Hebrew . . .
50 0 0
35 14 3
no fees.
85 14 3
800
0
0
Church History
100 0 0
30 0 0
130 0 0
440
0
0
...
Public Law
150 0 0
150 0 0
600
0
0
...
Mathematics .
50 0 0
35 14 3
30 b 0
115 14 3
1,100
0
0
Greek . . .
22 4 5
35 14 3
50 0 0
107 18 8
1,100
0
0
...
Logic and Meta-
physics . .
22 4 5
35 14 3
50 0 0
107 18 8
900
0
0
...
Natural Philo-
sophy . . .
22 4 5
35 14 3
50 0 0
107 18 8
1,100
0
0
Moral Philo-
sophy . . .
22 4 5
35 14 3
50 0 0
107 18 8
900
0
0
Humauit}- . .
24 9 5
35 14 3
50 0 0
110 3 8
1,100
0
0
Librarian . .
36 13 4
20 0 0
56 13 4
400
0
0
i
1302 0 1
10,610
0
0
8-1
Tradesmen,'^ etc.
Masons . . . . .p. day
0 10
0
7
1
7
Joiners . . . . .p. da3'
0 0 10
0
7
6
9
Tailors . . . . .p. daj'
0 0 8
0
6
0
9
Dykers . . \). rood of (i yds. G inch.
0 10
0
6
0
6
Field labourer
.
. p. day
0 0 5
0
4
2,
10
1. The Church. — The stipends of tlie niinister.s of the Ediiiburjjh
churches were raised in 1094 to 2500 merks Scots, or £1J38, 17s. 9k^d.
stg. They were reduced in 1708 to 2000 merks, but were raised again
to the old figure in 1712 for three of their uumhev {Citf/ 0/ Fdinhnrgh
Ih-cnrd.s). As to the average stipend of the Ministers, IVIr. Steel, the
minister of Sorn in Ayrshire, speaking in 1749, stated that at that time
it did not exceed £52. This figure was apparently an underestimate,
for it appears from the statistics collected by the Committee, who
reported upon the stipends to the General Assembly in the following
year, that the average stijjend at that time must have been nearer £05.
As there must have been some increa.^e during the forty years that had
elapsed since the Union, it cannot be far wrong to take £50 as the
averHge stipend in 1707. In regard to the average stipend of to-day,
.Mr. Simpson, minister of Bonhill, estimates it for landward parishes
at about £260. Mr. P. ('. Robertson, however, the Interim Auditor of
the Church of Scotland, considers th;it if the city churches, with their
largely augmented stipends, be included, the average is nearer £300.
426 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
2. Education. — The figures entered as paid by the city are taken
from the City Accounts ; the figures entered as paid from Queen Anne's
grant are taken from Sir Alexander Grant's History of the University ;
the figures entered as derived from fees in the classes of Greek^ Logic
and Metaphysics, Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Humanity,
are based on the fact that when the Professor of Moral Philosophy
in 1708 was forbidden to charge class fees, he received an additional
salary of £'oO in lieu thereof. It is therefore probable that £50 also
represents the value of the fees in these other classes which formed part
of the same course of study. The sums entered as class fees for Divinity,
Church History, and Mathematics are merely estimates. The fees
drawn by the Librarian were for issuing diplomas, and the figure entered
is an estimate founded on the number of graduates, and the fees he was
allowed to charge. In judging of the salaries of the Principal and of
the Professor of Divinity, it has to be remembered that these gentlemen
also held as ministers city charges, which brought each of them in an
additional sum of £122, 4s. .5d. Graham in his Social Life of Scot/and
states that the salaries of Professors in Scotland during the first quarter
of the eighteenth century averaged from £25 to £30, exclusive of class
fees. As will be seen from the above state, the salaries of the regular
professors in Edinburgh averaged considerably more.
It is more difficult to ascertain what rise has taken place in the
remuneration of the parish 'Dominie.' According to statute he was
entitled in 1707 to a salary from the heritors of not less than £5, 18s. 3d.,
and not more than £11, 2s. (?d. In a Memorial drawn up in 1782 for
the Pai'ochial School Masters in Scotland, it is stated that this remunera-
tion, 'though not great, was yet well suited to the times, the funds,
and distinction of rank at the period. The emoluments of their office
placed them above day labourers, and the poorer class of mechanics and
farmers ; nay, raised them to an equality with the more opulent farmers,
respectable tradesmen and citizens ; among vvliom their employment,
their manners, and prospects in life procured them a degree of respect
very advantageous to their profession.' Still in spite of this opinion,
and of our knowledge that they enjoyed in addition certain perquisites,
their pay seems to have been relatively j)oor. On the other hand an
examination of the fees paid by Lady Grisell for the education of her
daughters as shown in Appendix iii., would indicate that private tuition
was relatively well paid, and taken all over, it may be assumed that the
increase in their professional incomes lies between six and ten.
3. Tradesmen, etc. — In comparing the wages paid to tradesmen then
and now, it is necessary to bear in mind that whereas they worked at
least 10 hours a day in 1707, they only work at most 9 hours nowadays.
This has been taken into account in the foregoing state. The amounts
entered as presently paid are based on the wage per hour paid to the
tradesman, not the sum per hour charged by his master against the
customer.
It will be observed that in the foregoing state no notice has been
taken of the earnings of Solicitors, Doctors, and Surgeons, nor of the
pay of the Army. In regard to the first three of these, it has been
found impossible to arrive at any true method of comparison, the work
performed by them then and now being so different. The few items
capable of comparison, such as drawing bonds for money, bleeding,
syringing the ears, etc., indicate that a man in the position of George
Baillie would have had to pay eight times more now than he did then.
APPENDIX IV
427
(Syringing the ears, 5s. then, £2, 2s. now ; bleeding, 9s. 8d. then,
£4, 4s. now.)
As to the pay of tlie army, it was relatively so high that it stands
alone, and must he judged by itself. The generous treatment meted
out to soldiers does not appear to have arisen from any attempt to place
the Scottish army on the same footing as the English army, alongside of
which it was called upon to fight, for we find the same high rate of pay
ruling in Scotland during the reigns of Charles ii. and James vii. before
the beginning of the great Continental war. It arose more probably
from the desire to ensure the loyalty of the army, and it no doubt
accounts for the fact that so many gentlemen were to be found serving
as non-commissioued officers and privates, and that desertion was at that
time practically unknown. The following state, for which the editor
is indebted to Mr. Andrew Ross, Ross Herald, shows how small has been
the increase in the pay of the army during the last two hundred years,
and indicates that in spite of its pay being occasionally a year or two in
arrears, the army was either largely overpaid then, or miserably under-
paid now. In looking at the figures it must be borne in mind that
colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and majors had companies, and drew
captain's pay in addition to their pay as field officers.
Colonel.
Lt. -Colonel.
Major.
c
"3
■ o.
6
Lieutenant.
Ensign.
Sergeant.
Corporal.
Drummer.
1. 1677
2. 1702
3. 1707 (England) ' 20
4. 1911
Foot Guards.
Per dietii
J. d.
s. d.
s. d.
s. d.
s. d.
s. d. s. d.
s. d.
s. d.
12 0
7 0
5 0
8 0
4 0
3016
I 0
I 0
12 0
7 0
5 0
8 0
4 0
3016
I 0
I 0
20 0
12 0
8 0
14 0
7 0
5016
I 0
I 0
18 0
18 0
(13 7|
\ to \
II 7
(6 6|
5326
I 9
I 2
(16 oj
Marching Regiments. Per diem.
1. 1685
2. 1702
3. i707(EngIand)| 12 o
4. 1911 . . 18 o
s.
7
7
7
18
d.
o
d.
f'3
1 16
'■\
s.
4
4
4
d.
o
o
o
6)
to ,
7 6 )
d.
.c. d.
s. d.
6
I 0
I 0
6
I 0
I 0
6
1 0
I 0
4
I 8
I I 1
1
J. d.
o 6
° 7
O ID
XoTK.— There was no line regiment on the 1677 Establishment, and the pay of the Foot
Guards was the same in 1685 as in 1677.
428
HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
APPEJ
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
Mil.
House-
keeping
Accounts
Sundry
Disburse-
ments,
including
taxes, feu-
duties, etc.
Ykar.
(Food,
drink,
firing, light-
Servants'
Servants'
Clothes
for
Furniture
and
Expenses of
Horses,
etc.
Doctor.'
and
Surgeon
'9 '1
ing, wash-
ing, and all
Wages.
Clothes.
Familj
Furnish-
ings.
expenses in
connection
«l
therewith.)
fl
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
£ s.
d.
£ s.
d.
£ s.
d.
£ s. d.
£ -V.
d.
^
1693, 1694, \
^M
and 169s (
175 0 0
257 9 4
"29 17
2
Sg IS
0
log 4 6
62 0
0
52 H
Average for \
these years /
58 6 S
85 i6 5
9 19
I
29 18
4
36 8 2
20 13
4
"1
1696
79 15 0
46 5 0
16 0
0
5° 13
2
50 I 4
8 15
8
i6 ^^
I1697
149 3 0
70 9 8
14 9
4
31 "
8
48 15
10
31 9 6
. •
1698
78 I 8
8 19 4
4 ID
0
27 15
6
I 15 3
21699
165 8 2
246 IS 8
29 2
0
29 18 2
19 17
9
7 0 3 1:
!^ iS f
1700
242 10 4
3234 15 6
21 18
0
9 0
0
14 12 2
10 I
8
1 701
250 13 7
82 17 10
19 II
2
13 5
S
44 9
3
42 4 9
41 2
I
7 6 c
1702
23s 5 5
59 3 8
18 0
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1 Old Mrs. Baillie died this year, and the Baillies flitted to a house belonging to Bailie Hamilton.
'■2 Lady Grisell has an entry to the effect that her book 'was not rectified, and it was to great truble to
writt them all out.' This probably accounts for the want of detail in that and the two preceding years.
•* This figure includes the family clothes, but no details are given to enable a separation to be made.
4 Flits to Lord Colinton's house, probably in Foulis Close.
5 Expenses of going to London on ist April, staying there and reluming by 15th May.
* Includes Bonds for borrowed money.
" This and the two entries immediately below include servants' clothing.
" This should be ;{Ji6o, 13s., but Lady Grisell enters it as shown here.
9 Lady'iGrisell and her husband seem to have been in London for several months at the beginning of the year.
10 Includes a payment oK £it, 15s. 6d. to Miss Menzies, 'over and above her fie for her care of the bairens
when they had the fever.'
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took place. ,
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GLOSSARY
Ala:\ioi)E, a silk material, a la mode,
in the seventeenth century.
Antoylage, entoilage, linen or other
ludterial to which lace is sewed.
Armogeen, a stout silk almost invari-
ably black.
AttleSj a silk stuff wrought with
threads of gold and silver imported
from India.
Bast, matting made of the inner bark
of the lime.
Batthel or bathelj beadle.
Bear, barley.
Bongrace, a sort of front standing
erect round the face attached to the
hood.
Bragad, brocade.
Buffing, buffines {?), a kind of coarse
material.
Bufft, covered with buffines.
Bustin, bustian (?), same as fustian,
a coarse twilled cotton cloth.
Busum, besom, broom.
Calamanka, calimanco, a woollen
material made plain and glazed in
finishing.
Camlet, camblet, a cloth made of
wool, silk, or hair, or all three.
Capillaire. l^ee note, p. 321.
Chutches, cuches, donkeys.
Clogbag, saddle bag.
Cods, pillows.
Codwars, pillowslips.
Cog, pail.
Cruk, crook, an iron hook suspended
in kitchen chimney on which pots
were hung.
Dail, a load, a ton.
Dails, wooden boards.
Daniaty, dimity, a fine sort of
fustian.
Dicks, dykes, stone walls.
Divits, divots, turfs cut into squares.
Dornick, dornock, chequered table
linen.
Drogat, drugget, a sort of woollen
stuff.
Fairins, a gift of money for spending
at a fair or a gift bought at a fair.
Furd, made of fur.
Galown, galloon, a hard braid of
silk or wool used for edging.
Gass or gaz, gauze.
Hagabag, coarse table linen.
Harden, a common linen or the
coarsest quality of hemp or flax.
Hatted kit, a preparation of milk,
etc., with a creamy top. See note,
p. 290.
Jacoi-it, chocolate.
Jumps, jimps, a kind of easy stays
open in front, worn by nurses.
Kains, canes.
Kevelmell, a heavy mell or hammer.
Lame, earthenware.
432 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Lutestring, lustriug, a bright silk
mjtch used, said to have been intro-
duced into this country by the
French refugees after the Revoca-
tion of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
Manto, manteau.
Maskarad, masquerade.
Milsy, a milk strainer.
Mohair, cloth made of mohair ; the
fine silken hair of the Angora gout.
Panscratch, the thick scale that
forms on the bottom of a salt pan.
Pertian, persian, a thin plain silk,
much used for linings.
Pice, piece, a hogshead.
Pillabers, pillowberes, pillowslips.
Pittipan, pettypan, a white iron mold
used for pastry.
Podisoy, paduasoy, a strong silk,
usually black.
Pother, pewter.
QuECHES, quaich, a small and shallow
drinking cup.
KiMiN nisH, perhaps the rimmer or
vat in which curd is set to harden
for cheese.
Salmagundy, salmagunde, a dish
of minced meat with eggs, anchovies,
vinegar, pepper, etc.
Scout, schuit, a public boat drawn by
horse through the canals.
Sesnet, sarcenet.
Shad, /a/.
Shagreen, a sort of baize.
Sheneal, chenille, striped taffatu.
Shill, shovel.
Skep, basket hive.
Snakes, snecks, fastenings.
Sods, a sort of saddle used by the
poorer classes made of cloth stuffed.
Stenting, stretching.
Stinging, thatching.
Stoup, flagon.
Strakins, linen cloth made of coarse
flax.
Tabir, tabby, a kind of silk watered
or waved.
Tafita, taffeta, a sort of thick
silk.
Thack, thatch.
Thicking, thatching.
Tolliduse, taille-douce. See note,
p. 39.
Tourdelie, tour de lit, the valance of
a bed.
Tows, ropes.
Trivet, a movable iron frame for
supporting kettles, etc.
Tusk, a fish as big as a ling, much
esteemed for its delicacy.
Wort skill, a shovel for wort for
brewing.
Yettin, cast-iron.
Yrone, iron.
INDEX
Abernethy, Dr., i8, 19, 22, 23.
George, 53.
Aikman, Francis, of Brambleton and
Ross, 36 «.
William, portrait painter, xxvii
and n, 55.
Ainsly, James, 203.
Aislaby, Mr., xxii n.
Aiton, taken prisoner at Preston, 51
and M.
Aix-la-Chapelle, 404.
Ale, 415.
Allen, Mr. , British consul at Naples, 392.
Amsterdam, 386.
Anchovies, lix.
Anderson's meeting-house, 37.
pills, 35.
Robert, footman, 158.
Andrews, Eliza, 430.
Annandale, William Johnstone, first
marquis of, 288 and n.
Arbuthnott, Dr. John, 43 and «.
Archery in Holland, 387 ti.
Army pay, 427.
Augsburg, 402.
Baillie, Archibald, son of George
Baillie of Jerviswood, xi.
Archibald, son of Robert Baillie
of Jerviswood, xv, l.xxiv, 261, 264,
265.
Christian, xi.
Elizabeth, daughter of Robert
Baillie of Jerviswood, and wife of
Robert Weems of Graingemuir, xv,
xxxvii, 45 ;/, 430.
George, first of Jerviswood, and
merchant burgess of Edinburgh, x,
XXX, 430.
George, son of Robert Baillie of
Jerviswood, xii, xv; present at the
execution of his father, xiii ; his life
influenced by his father's fate, xiii-
xiv ; escapes to Holland and his
estates forfeited, xvi ; in the service
of the Prince of Orange, xvii ; re-
turns to Scotland and is made re-
ceiver-general, xviii ; his marriage,
O
xviii ; his political position, xix ; a
member of the first Union parliament,
XX ; a lord of the treasury, xxii,
xxxix ; his retiral, xxiii, Ixvii ; a
lover of books, xxv ; an encourager
of the fine arts, xxvi ; his love of
music, xlviii, Ixxviii ; valuation of
his lands, Ixxviii ; his social qualities,
xxiv ; his death, xxiii, xxvii.
Baillie, George, of Manorhall, xi, 430.
lady Grisell, her parentage, xii ;
sent on a mission to Robert Baillie,
prisoner in Edinburgh Tolbooth, xii ;
accompanies her father in his flight
to Holland, xvi ; her marriage, xviii ;
her daughters' marriages, xxvii-xxix ;
her business capacity, xxx-xxxv ;
house rents, xxxvii, 40, 45, 48, 54,
59. 140, 141, 146, 149. 153. 15^, 162,
331-334, 337,. 340 ; travelling ex-
penses, xxxviii-xlv ; education and
amusements, xlv-li, Ixxviii ; house-
hold expenditure, xxxi-xxxvi, Ivii-
Ix ; estate management, Ix-lxiv, 236-
255 ; stable expenditure, 225-236 ;
furniture and furnishings, Ixiv-lxvj
164-188; lawyers' and doctors' fees,
Ixvi ; expenses of a foreign tour, 309-
383 ; horses and carriages, Ixviii-lxxi ;
clothing, Ixxi-lxxii ; general remarks
on the accounts, Ixxv-lxxix. See
also under Servants.
Grisell, daughter of George Baillie
of Jerviswood, and wife of sir Alex-
ander Murray of Stanhope, xxvii-
xxviii, xliv, xlviii, 7, 10, 12-15, 24,
25 and «, 86-89 passim ; her
marriage expenses, 203-205, 429 m;
her Memoirs, xiii, xxii, 1, Ixxviii. -i-
Grisell, grand-daughter of George
Baillie of Jerviswood, xxvii.
Helen, daughter of Robert Baillie
of Jerviswood, and wife of John Hay,
XV, xxxvii.
Helen, grand-daughter of George
Baillie of Jerviswood, xxvii.
James, merchant burgess of Edin-
burgh, X.
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434 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Baillie, James, captain of the CityGuard
of Edinburgh, xi, i and n, 2.
James, son of Robert Baillie of
Jerviswood, xv, 55, 265, 266.
John, of Walston, 3 and ft, 45.
John, son of George Baillie of
Jerviswood, xi.
John, son of Robert Baillie of
Jerviswood, xv, 49, 59, 264, 266.
John, chirurgeon, 21, 22, 32, 90,
255, 256.
Rachel, wife of (i) rev. Andrew
Gray ; and (2) of rev. George
Hutcheson, xi, 430.
Rachel, daughter of Robert Baillie
of Jerviswood, and wife of Patrick
Dundas of Breistmilne, xv, Ixxiv.
Rachel, daughter of George Baillie
of Jerviswood, and wife of Charles,
lord Binning, xxvii, xxix, xl, xlix,
8, 14, 17, 32 passim ; her marriage,
115; cost of her trousseau, Ixxiii,
213, 429 n; her life illustrated by
entries in the account books, xlv-
xlvii.
Robert, of Jerviswood, the story
of his rescue of the rev. James
Kirkton, xi, 269 ; arrested for high
treason and confined in the Tower,
xii ; carried prisoner to Scotland,
xii ; his execution, xiii-xiv and ti,
XV ; his family, xv ; notice of, 269-
272.
Robert, son of George Baillie of
Jerviswood, xxvii, 191 and m, 265,
266.
Robert, of Manorhall, i and «.
William, son of Robert Baillie of
Jerviswood, xv.
Mr., banker in Rotterdam, 386.
Baillies of Jerviswood, ix.
of Lamington, x.
of St. John's Kirk, ix.
genealogical tree, 430,
Baird, Alex., 114.
sir William, 288.
Baldwin, Mr., coachmaker, 33.
Ballinton, James, 67.
Balsamic syrup, 98.
Barr, John, 92.
Bassa, Laura, 392.
Baths or bagnios, Ixviiand n, 3, 7, 18,
37, 38, 45, 109.
Bayley, Mr., xxii n.
Beaver-skin stockings, xlv, Ixxii.
Bell, Andrew, bookseller in London,
xxv, 39.
Ann, 145.
Charles, lOO.
Fanny, housekeeper, 150.
Bell, Thomas, 12, 154.
Bellingham, Charles, 23 n.
Jeanie, 38 and «.
lady Julian, 38 and n, 52.
Bells, Ixv.
Bempole, Charlotte Vanhose, wife of
William, marquis of Annandale,
288 «,
Bernachi, signor, xlix, 43, 52-54, 391.
Betson, John, butcher, 104, io6, no,
III.
Bewhauen, Archibald, 261.
Bible pawned, 266.
' Bills of Fair,' lix ; extracts from, 281-
.304-
Binning, Charles, lord, xxix and «,
109, 430 ; his marriage, xl ; dies at
Naples, xliii.
George, lord, 430.
Eisset, Duncan, Iv.
Black, Gilbert, 104.
Marth, 12.
Blacking, Ix.
Blackwood, sir Robert, 81, 188, 190.
Blainsly, 224.
Blakie, James, 19, 244.
Bleeding, Ixvi, 7, 16, 18, 23, 37, 38,
45, 255. 364, 366, 369, 427.
Blyth, Alexander, 155.
John, shoemaker, 200.
Boe, John, 17.
Boge, Jean, 126.
Bologna, 391.
Book-keeping, 29.
Books, 52,
Boscawen, Mr., xxii tt.
Boughtrige, 23.
Bowling-green, Ixii.
Boyd, James, 40.
Brady, James, 26.
Bran, 66.
Brandy, 69, 73, 74, 76, 4iS-
Breastmiln. See Dundas, Patrick.
Broom besoms, 94.
Broughton, 25 and n.
Brown, Mr., British consul in Venice,
398.
Hew, 5.
Jean, 120.
John, 117.
Margrat, cook, 133, 139.
Neil, consul in Padua, 346.
Peter, 22, 29, 119.
sir Robert, 346, 373,
Susan, 117, 118.
Thomas, baker, lOi.
Will, 38.
Brownlies, Alisone, 133, 140.
Andrew, 17-19.
Isabell, 133.
i
INDEX
435
Brownlies, Mungo, 9, 12, 78.
Will., 4, 146.
Bruce, Alison, 296 n.
lady Anne, xxvii.
Brumigham, Francis, 122.
Brunfield, Alison, 145, 149.
Grace, at Greenlaw, 71.
Burke (Burck), captain, 13.
Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury,
xviii, 283 and n.
William, 77.
Bute, lady, 35 and ;/.
Cairncross, George, mason, Ixiii.
Calais, 409.
Calder, 22 and n, 27.
Elizabeth, fourth wife of Hugh
Rose of Kilravock, 36 and n.
Cambray, 406.
Campbell, sir George, 270.
sir Hugh, 270, 271.
Margaret, countess of Marchmont,
300 «.
Candibrod sugar, 61, 69.
Candles, 71, 72, 76, 79. 97. 102, ill,
411.
Cannel, James, coachman, 122, 126.
Canongate, bagnio, 3 ; fire in, 6.
Capel, lady Anne, 294 71.
Capons, 60.
Cards, losses at, 1, 31, 37-40. 45. 47"
50, 52-54, 107, 282.
Carestini, Giovanni, 336.
Carlisle, Charles Howard, third earl
of, 294 and n.
Carnegy, lady Christian, 282 «.
Carolina Wilhelmina, princess of
Wales, 293 and n.
Carr, Andrew, 264, 267.
Margrate, 127.
Carrin, James, liii «, 8, 116, 120, 125,
128.
Carss, Will, 92.
Carter, George, servant, liv, Ixiii, 280.
Carts, Ixxi.
Castles, Ann, cook, liv.
Castruchi, xlviii.
Cattle, plague among, 34 m.
prices of, 416.
Cavendish, lady Arabella, 287 n.
Cavers, 11 and n.
Cess, I, 2, 4-6, 42, 58, 60, 223, 224,
429 n.
Champagne, 103, 107, 415.
Chandos, James Brydges, first duke of,
296 and n.
Channelkirk (Ginelkirk), 25 and n.
Chato, Thomas, in Kelso, 72.
Cheese, 64, 78, 84, 86, 113, 412.
Cheyne (Shien), Dr., 31.
Chiese, Philip de, inventor of the
Berline carriage, Ixix and ;/.
Chiesly (Cheasly), Jean, 195.
sir Robert, 65.
William, of Cockburn, 218 and
;/, 219, 220.
Chocolate (jocolet), Iviii, 95, 106, 322,
347. 412.
Christy, Agnes, 126.
Nany, cook, 117, 119, 120, 123,
130.
Patrick, 221.
Churchill, lady Anne, 287 n.
Churchyard charges, 5.
Cinnamon, 74, 81, 412.
water, 98, 1 10, 412.
Claret, 69, 109, 415.
Clark, Bessie, 135.
George, 2, 3.
John, 137, 147.
Clog bags, xxxviii, Ixviii and «,
230.
Clothing, Ixxi, 188-218.
Cloves, 69, 74, 81, 97.
Cluther, Gawin, 122.
Coach wheels, 39.
Coal, 61, 63, 64, 72, 77, 85, 95, 97-98,
417 and n.
Cockburn, Adam, of Ormiston, 259 n.
sir James, of Ryslaw, 24.
Thomas, 141.
Cocks combs (cox colms) in the ' Bill of
Fair,' 289, 303.
Cod, Ix.
Coffee, Iviii.
Coinage of Holland, France, Italy, etc.
388 ; relative value of money, Ixxvi ;
table of Scots and English money,
421 ; tables of foreign money, 423.
Colecot, John, 35, 44.
Cologne, 403-405-
Coltcrooks, 19, 243.
Corbett, Sandy, 1 1 7.
Corks, 84, 85, 412.
Cot houses, Ixiii-lxiv, 13.
Coumsly hill, 224, 225, 239.
Couston, lady, 85.
Cow tax, 34 and n ; price of cows, 67,
89, 90.
Craw, John, 28.
Croo, captain, xii.
Crumbin, Mr., teacher of music, 12,
16.
Cuningham, Alexander, writer, 223.
Jean, 128.
sir John, 270.
Currants, ill.
Cutiibert or Cuthbertson, John, 369,
370, 375. 383-
Cuzzoni, signor, xlix and «.
436 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Dalrymple, lady Margaret. See
Loudoun, lady.
Sarah, 257 «.
Dancing, xlvii-xlviii, Ixxviii, 7, 10, 14,
33. 53. 420.
Darien Company, xix.
Davidson (Divison) George, footman,
162.
Deans, George, gardener, liv.
Deas, James, 236.
Debentures, 58 and «.
Dentistry, Ixvii, 24, 35, 46, 53, 54.
Denun, David, saddler, 226.
Derham, sir Thomas, 328.
Dice, 52.
Dick, Munga, 240, 242, 243.
Rob, 223.
Dickson, Jean, cook, 161.
Patrick, 53.
William, tailor, 139, 203.
Dippo, Isabell, 20.
Doctors' fees. See Medical fees.
Doddington, George Bubb, 299 and «.
Dods, Andrew, 18.
George, servant, liii and «, liv,
131. 136-
Door bells, Ixv.
Douglas, James, 109.
Jean, wife of sir John Kennedy of
Culzean, 33 n.
Drink expenditure, Ivii.
money, Iv, 7, 13, \^ passim.
Drummond, George, 33, 264.
James, i, 6.
Ducks, 85.
Dunbar, Mr., teacher of French, 32-34,
36.
Duncan, James, 27.
Dundas, Dr. Alexander, 16, 18.
Betty, 54, 56.
George, of that ilk, 296 and n.
Grisell, 56.
Patrick, of Breastmiln, xv, 261
and «, 266, 267, 430.
Rachel, Ixxiv, 33, 43, 213.
Robert, advocate, 296 and n.
Dunglass, xl and n.
laird of. See Hall, sir John.
Dupplin, 15 and n.
lady, 39 and «.
Dykes, Ixiii and n.
Earl's meeting-house, 40.
Earle, general, 285 and n.
Earlston, xxiii ; repairs of the kirk,
Ixiv, 19 ; valuation of subjects in,
Ixxviii.
Edgar, George, 124-126.
Edinburgh, great fire in 1645, "^ 5
house rents and lodgings, xxxvii.
Edmonston, Andrew, of Ednem, x.
Education, xlv-xlvii, 420.
Eliot, sir Gilbert, of Minto, Ixvi, 24,
221 and n, 222, 296 and n.
sir Gilbert, of Stobs, 29 n.
Essex, lady, 345.
Estate management, Ix, 236-255.
Expresses from and to Edinburgh, 17,
23-
Faa, Ann, 18, 117, 260.
Fairholm, John, of Craigiehall, 288 >/.
Sophia, 288 ;/.
Fairings, 27, 28.
Faladam, 90 and ;/, 95.
Farellton, Dorathie, 260.
Fenton, Thomas, 89.
Finch, lady Mary, 284 n.
Finla, Margrat, 144.
Fir seed, Ixii.
Fire in Edinburgh in 1645, x ; fire in
Lawnmarket, 10.
Firs, 59.
Fleming (Flimin), Margaret, 117.
Flint, John, 232.
Florence, 394.
Foot-mantles, 224 and n.
Forbes, Charles, 318.
Forman, John, 258.
Forrist, Ann, 118, 120.
Forsith, Jean, housemaid, 151, 158.
Forster, lord, 289.
Foulerton, Robert, of the Custom
House in Leith, xliv n.
Foul is, Hary, 27.
sir James, of Colinton, xxxvii,
13 and n.
Frankfort, 402.
Frazer, Ann, chambermaid, 156.
John, 20, 133.
Frogs in the ' Bill of Fair,' 302.
Fuel, prices of, 417.
Funeral expenses, 267.
Furniture and furnishings, Ixiv.
Garner, Hellin, ii, 123, 127.
Gascoigne, Anne, 430.
George i., accession of, xxii.
Geese, 92.
Gelding, 232.
Gibson, Dr., 22, 23, 28, 56 and n.
Bartholomew, 65, 229.
GifTord, John, 31.
Gilroy, Dorothy, kitchenmaid, 145,
149.
Glass churn, Ixv.
windows, 3, 5, 32, 35.
Glen, Jean, 140.
Goldbeater's leaf, 32.
Gooseberries, 92.
INDEX
437
Gordon, the duke of, obtains the
forfeited estate of Robert Baillie of
Jerviswood, xvi.
• James, agent of the Linen Manu-
factory, I.
— John,
xliv;/.
banker in Rotterdam,
Gowdy, Mr., 21.
Grange Muir, 18 and «.
laird of. See Weems, Robert.
Grant of ward, 219 and n.
Granville, John, earl, 295 n.
Gray, Andrew, minister of Glasgow,
xi.
James, 65.
Grazing, 73, 80, 89.
Greenknowe. See Pringle.
Grieve, James, 113, 152, 157, 159.
Griffeth, Ann, cook, 161.
Grumball, or Grumble, Arthur, baker,
104, no, 114.
Gunpowder, 28.
Guns and bayonets, 28.
Guthery, Alex., writer, 41.
Haddington, Charles, eighth earl
of, 430.
George, tenth earl, 430.
George, eleventh earl, 430.
Thomas, sixth earl, 300 and ;/,
430-
Thomas, seventh earl, xxix, 384,
430.
Thomas, ninth earl, 430.
Haliburton of Pitcur, 24.
Halifax, George Montagu, first earl of,
298 and n.
Hall, Laltes, cook, 156.
Halliwall, Dorothy, 49.
Will., 137.
Hamilton, Alexander, 219 «.
Archibald, 103.
Charles, son of Charles, lord
Binning, xxix.
George, son of Charles, lord
Binning, succeeds to Jerviswood and
Mellerstain, xxix, xxx.
Grisell, daughter of Charles, lord
Binning, xxix, xliv.
• Helen, daughter of Charles, lord
Binning, xxix, xliv.
James, fifth duke of, 295 and n.
■ Jean, 36 and m, 42.
John, son of Charles, lord Bin-
ning, xxix.
lady Margaret, 207.
Mary, 52.
Rachel, daughter of Charles, lord
Binning, xxix.
Hamilton, Thomas. See Haddington,
earl of
■ William, duke of, 270.
Hardy, Barbry, 148.
Margaret, liv.
Ilarla, John, 17, 129, 133.
Hartrigge, 29 n.
Hay, Charles, baxter, 89.
lady Jean, 286 n.
John, writer in
Edinburgh,
430-
Robert, 46.
lady Susan, 37,
Heart, Katharine, laundrymaid, xxxix,
29, 151, 160.
Hempsteed, Marion, 102.
Hens, 60.
Heraldic arms, 41.
Herdmanston, 256 n.
Herring, lix, 72, 76, 77, 85, 412.
Hervey, lady, 302 and n, 353, 376.
Hervie, Tho., 49.
Hewie, Thomas, 157.
Hilton. See Johnston, Joseph.
Hirsel, the seat of the earl of Home,
22 and «, 84.
Histinns (? Hastings), sergeant of the
King's Foot Guard, xii.
Hoburn, Roger, 4.
Holland, directions for travelling in,
386.
Holt, Mary, 430.
Hope, Helen, wife of Thomas, earl of
Haddington, 430.
John, gardener, Ixii, 88,
137,
141.
Robert, 19.
Tarn, 244.
col., 300.
Hopetoun, John, earl of, 430.
Hops, 75, 84.
Horses and carriages, expenditure on,
xl, Ixviii-lxxi, 8, li.
Horse-shoeing, 19, 64.
Household expenses, xxxi-xxxvi, Ivii-
Ix.
furniture, Ixiv-lxv, 164-188.
House-rents, xxxvii, 40, 45, 48, 54, 59,
331-334. /«^-f«'"-
Howard, lady Mary, 300 ;/.
Hull, William, footman, liv.
Hume of Wedderburn, xiv, 40 and «,
5'-
Alexander, second earl of March-
mont, 300 and «.
Alex, of Whitehouse, 49 and n.
Andrew, lord Kimmerghame, 4,
27 and ;/.
— Ann, wife of sir John Hall of
Dunglass, 27 «.
438 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Hume, Anne, wife of sir William Purves
of Purveshall, 36 and ;/.
■ David, collector of the cess, 4.
sir George, 65.
George, of Graden, 261 n.
George, of Kimmerghame, xxxviii
n.
— George, of Whitefield, 50 «.
Grisell, wife of George Baillie of
Jerviswood. See Baillie, lady
Grisell.
Grisell, daughter of lord Polwarth,
36 and n.
— • James, of Aiton, xiv.
— Jean, wife of James, lord Tor-
phichen, 23 n, 188 and n.
— John, carter, 280.
— John, gardener, Ixxv, 153, 162.
— John, tailor, 121, 122.
— Julian, wife of Newton of that ilk,
23 and n.
Julian, sister of lady Grisell, 23
and n.
— sir Patrick, aftw. earl of March-
mont, xii, 406 ; escapes to Holland,
XV ; his estates forfeited, xvi; returns
to Scotland, xvii ; created lord
Polwarth, xviii.
— Patrick, son of sir Patrick, xvii
and n.
— • Robert, 93.
Sophia, 27 «.
Mrs., of Bogend, 9.
Mrs., of Whitefield, xiv.
Hungary water, 68, 97, 381.
Hunter, Dorathy, 162.
James, 224, 233.
John, 2, 5.
Patrick, stabler, 41, 65, 68, 71,
73-
Hutcheson, George, minister in Edin-
burgh, xi and n.
Hutchison, Adam, 83, 84.
Hyndford, lady, 291 and «.
Indigo, 73.
Inglis, Margrat, 123.
— Patrick, 42 and «.
Thomas, dean of guild of Edin-
burgh, x.
Ink, Ix.
Innes, John, 120, 121.
Inns of France and Germany, 384 ; of
Holland, 386.
Innspruck, 401.
Jackson, Ambrose, ioi, 104.
Mr., British consul in Genoa, 390.
Jaillot, Bernard Antoine, map-maker,
XXV and n.
Japanning, 257 and n.
Jedburgh, lord. See Kerr, William.
Jenkins, sir Lyon, xii.
Jerviswood, xv, xxx, Ix, 8, 60 ; pur-
chased by George Baillie, x, 430 :
valuation, Ixxviii ; feu-duty, 10.
Johnston, Archibald, lord Wariston,
xi, xviii, 269 and n.
Effie, 10 and n.
Helen, wife of George Hume of
Graden, 261 n.
Isabell, 117.
James, merchant burgess of Edin-
burgh, X.
— James, secretary of state for Scot-
land, xviii, xix, xxxv, Ixix, 3, 286
and M, 300.
— Joseph, of Hilton, 27 and n.
— Lucy, 53.
— Margaret, wife of George Baillie
of Jerviswood, x, 430.
Martha, 45.
— Rachel, daughter of lord Waris-
ton and wife of Robert Baillie of
Jerviswood, 269 and n ; note on the
imprisonment of her husband, xii.
Will, bookseller, 5.
Kennedy (Kenady), lady, 33 and «.
Andrew, 33 and «.
Anne, wife of John Blair yr. of
Dunskey, 33 n.
Anne, 32 and n.
Katharin, chambermaid.
160.
151.
Kerr of Littledean Tower, 24 and n,
Andrew, writer, 55.
John, of Kersland, 17 and «.
William, lord Jedburgh, 257 n
Kilpatrick, James, 29, 53, 144.
Kilravock (Kilraick), lady, 36 and «.
Kimmerghame, 27 and n.
Kirk, Janit, cook, 132.
Kirkton, Dr. George, 7, li, 31, 255,
256, 257.
James, minister of the Tolbooth,
Edinburgh, xi and «, 270.
captain, R.N., 31 and «, 42.
Knaghten, Mr., banker in Rotterdam,
386.
Krenberg, or Kramberg, or Cremberg,
teacher of singing, 10-12, 14.
La Bushier, M., surgeon, 57.
Laidlay, Thomas, 224, 236.
Lamb, Alexander, candlemaker, 95.
Andrew, 10, 13, 17, 20, 25, 62,
63, 87, 129, 137, 147.
Isabell, 124.
Jean, 29.
INDEX
439
Lamb, Margrat, 129.
William, Ixiii.
Langshaw, Ixiv, 27, 41, 58, 222-224
and 71, 236.
Lasell, Katharin, 160.
Law, John, financier, buried in Venice,
398 and ;/.
Lawnmarket fire in 1701, 10.
Leadhowse. See Liedhouse.
Lechmere, Mr., xxii ;/.
Lecturers' tax, 44 and n, 51.
Legal fees, Ixvi, 219-223, 426.
Leishman, William, xv.
Lemons, 80, S3, 413.
Lesley, 15 and 11.
Tam, 57.
Letchmere, lady Elizabeth, 300 and ;/.
Liedhouse, James, 137, 247.
— — Thomas, 9, 64.
Liege, 404.
Lies, Sara, chambermaid, 156.
Lindsay, Nans, 135.
Linen manufactory, i and ;/, 3, 4, 6.
Littledean Tower. See Kerr.
Liviston, William, writer in Edinburgh,
2 and n.
Loaf sugar, 86.
Lockhart, lady, Ixxvi ;/, 53.
sir George, 270.
sir William, of Lee, 269.
Longformacus, 29 and «.
Lottery tickets, 44, 361, 362.
Loudoun, Hugh, third earl of, 39 m, 40.
lady, 39 and n.
Louth, lady, 382.
Lutestring, 42, 209-212.
Macclesfield, George, earl of,
430-
Mace, 74, 81, 413.
M'Gie, Mr., 21, 29.
M'Intosh, Mary, 128.
Mackenzie, sir Alexander, of Coul,
196 «.
Coll, 36.
Pegie, 20.
sir Roderick, of Prestonhall, 24 «.
Magill, Alex., i.
Magnoni, Mr., banker in Bologna,
391-
Main, John, 86.
Mair, John, 77.
Malbank, Judith, 122.
Malcolm (Makcom), David, 117.
Malt, 68, 74.
Man, Horatio, 349, 350, 365.
Manderson, Robert, 26, 87, 142.
Mar, lady, 39 and ;/, 48.
Marble brought from Naples, xliv and
n, 365-
Marchmont, earls of. See Hume.
Marjoribanks, James, 67.
Markham, Georgina, 430.
Marriage customs, xlv and ;;.
Marshall, Adam, 10, 27.
Mary, 118.
Martin, Mr., portrait painter, xliv, 271.
Massie, James, schoolmaster at Mel-
lerstain, 3, 9, 11, 14-20, 32.
Maihy, George, 136.
Meal, 65, 85.
Mean, Alex., 247, 248.
Robert, 246.
Medical fees, Ixvi, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18,
19, 21-23, 28, 31, 32, 43, 56, 255 ;/,
257, 374, 427-
Medina, sir John, xxvi and n, 24.
Mellerstain, xxiii, xxx, lix, Ixi-lxiii,
2, 8, 10, 13, 21, 26, 59, 304, 305 ;
purchased by George Baillie, mer-
chant burgess of Edinburgh, x, 430 ;
teinds, 222 ; cess, 223 ; valuation,
Ixxviii.
Melvill, William, merchant, 219.
Menzies (Minzies), James, 35.
May, xlvi. Hi, Ixxiv, Ixxv, 15,
16, 25, 33, 35, 54, 131, 135, 139,
150, 155, 217, 280.
Patrick, xiii.
William, of Raw, xlvi.
Mercer (Marsser), Wdl, 225.
Midcalf, George, 159.
Milan, 391.
Mill, Henry, 54, 108, 109.
Margaret, 132, 135, 140.
Will, 31.
Miller, James, glazier, 20, 244.
James, tailor, 1 30.
William, gardener, 231.
Mineral waters, Ixvii.
Ministers' stipends, 425.
Minto, lord. See Elliot, sir Gilbert.
Mirrors, Ixv.
Mitchell, James 48.
Mally, 382.
William, 76, 87.
Money. See Coinage.
Monro, Grisie, 18.
John, 74.
Montagu, lady Mary Wortley, xxiii ;/,
xxviii, xlv M, Ixxii n, 281 «, 290
and «, 299 «, 300 n, 302.
Montgomerie, Hugh, 68.
Montrose, Dick, 38.
James, first duke of, 52, 282 and
«, 284, 285, 289.
duchess of, 31, 39, 282 and n.
Morton, Robert, 22.
Mosman, George, bookseller in the
Luckenbooths, xxv, 3, 4, 11.
440 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Mountjoy, Thomas, lord, 297 and n.
Mowit, John, 249.
Muckle, John, 138, 228.
Mudie, John, in Threepwood, 223,
224.
Mugwart water, 68, 413.
Muir, sir Archibald, 220 and n.
Mary, 70, 132.
Munich, 401.
Munro, Katharin, chambermaid, 130.
Murduck, John, 261.
Murray, sir Alexander, of Stanhope,
xxvii-xxviii, 430.
Alexander, W. S., keeper of a
bagnio in the Cowgate, Ixvii n.
lady. See Baillie, Grisell.
sir David, of Stanhope, 25 n.
Music and musical instruments, xlviii-
xlix, 16, 361, 366.
Namur Castle, 319.
Naples, 392.
Navell, Betty, 135.
May, 139.
Newton, Francis, Ixx, 20, 25, 37, 118,
201.
George, 26, 89, 93, 94.
Pate, blacksmith, 19, 228, 229,
233> 236.
Richard, of that ilk, 23 and it.
Nicolson (Nickelson), David, 117.
Will, 224, 225.
Nightgowns, xiii, Ixxi-lxxii and n.
Nutmegs, 61, 69, 80, 97, 106, 413.
Ogle, Betty, laundrymaid, liv,
Onslow, Arthur, 300 and n.
sir Richard, xxii n.
Opera tickets, xlix, 42, 43, 49, $2, 53,
323. 332, 372, 379-
Orange flower water, 80.
Oranges, 75, 80, 83, 413.
Orford, Edward Russel, earl of, 283
and n.
Robert Walpole, earl of, 299 and
ft.
Orkney, George Hamilton, earl of, 281
and n.
Ormand, Nelly, 158.
Ormiston, Charles, 79, 95.
James, Ixiv, 13, 133.
Owin, Adam, 118.
Oysters, Ix.
Padua, 399.
Pallie, Henry de, butler, liv.
Paris, directions for travellers, 407.
Park, James, footman, 162.
Munga, 79.
Paterson (Petterson), sir William, xiii.
Paton, William, in the Tolbooth,
266.
Pawnbroking, 4, 266, 267.
Peas, 83 and n, 88, 96.
Peat, 73, 76, 86.
Phillips, Ann, cook, 161.
Pierrepont, Frances, wife of the earl of
Mar, 39 n.
Pigeons, 76.
Pipe and drum, 19, 25, 27, 28, 60.
Piquebourg (Pickburg), countess of, 47
and n.
Pistols, 2, 318.
Pitcairn, Archibald, 16 and n, 18.
Plumer, Gavin, 259 and n.
Mary, 27.
Polwarth, 12 and n.
Poor tax, 47, 48, 57.
Portsmouth, John Wallop, first earl of,
292 and It.
Potatoes, Ix.
Poultry, prices of, 416.
Poulett, Catherine, wife of Secretary
Johnston, 286 n.
Pratolino, 396.
Preston, Thomas, 67.
Prestonhall, lord. See Mackenzie,
Roderick.
Prices of articles between 1693 and
1718, 410.
Primrose, Eleanor, viscountess, 292 n.
Pringle, Mrs., of Greenknow, 63.
Alexander, 223.
Gilbert, 95.
James, surgeon, 28.
sir John, of Stitchell, his house
plundered by the rebels, xiv.
Lewis, 77, 204.
Mary, 430.
Robert, xl and n, 30.
Prognostication, 27.
queensferry, i5.
Raith, Alexander, lord, 258.
Ramsay, Isabell, 133.
Redbraes (Ridbreas), xii, xviii, 23 and
«. 93-
Redhall, 219, 221, 222.
Rees's bagnio in the Canongate, Ixvii,
3-
Riccarlon, 15 and n.
Rice, 70, 82.
Rickelton, Isabella, 151.
Riding of the parliament, 124 and n,
224 n.
Ridpath, Dina, 10, 123.
George, 5 and n.
Jean, 140.
Ritchy, Margrat, 131.
INDEX
441
Robertson (Robison), Bella, under-
cook, 151.
David, vintner, i.
Grisell, 31, 125, 127.
Janet, 123.
Katharin, 125.
Margrat, 130.
Thomas, of Rokeby Park, 300 «.
Tam, 20.
William, in Eyemouth, 90, 92,
247.
Robinson, Anastasia, xlix.
Robsone, Samuel, in Brigend, 251,
253. 254.
Samuel, in Kelso, 59.
Rolland, Erasmus, 341.
• Winifred, 157.
Rome, 392.
Room (Kume), Mrs., xxxviii, 21, 25,
Ross, Margrat, chambermaid, 129,
130.
Rothes, John Leslie, eighth earl of, 285
and «, 295.
Rotterdam, xli, 309, 386.
Roxburgh, Jchn, first duke of, 49, 53,
284 and n.
duchess of, 284 n.
Rule, Marion, 128.
Russel, John, of Bradshaw, W.S.,
keeper of a bagnio in the Cowgate,
Ixvii.
Rutherd, Margaret, liv.
Rutherford ferry, 22 and «, 28.
Saddlery, Ixviii.
St. Andrews college, 12.
St. Clair, Mrs., 39, 40.
Dr. Matthew, II, 12, 15, 55,
256 and n.
St. Giles tolbooth, xxiii.
St. Leonards, lands of, 42.
Salaries and wages, liii-lvi, Ixxvii, 425.
Salmon, 61.
Salt, 93.
Salting, Katherine Augusta Millicent,
430-
Saltonshall, Ricarda, Posthume, 298 //.
Sandoni, signor, xlix and ;/, 391.
Sanderson, John, 188.
Scarsburg water, 71, 93.
Scavengers' tax, 47, 53.
Schoolmaster's salary, 225.
Scot, John, 32.
William, coachbuilder, Ixx n.
Scugald, John, painter, xxvi and «, 6,
7, 43. 47-
Seaforth, the earl of, succeeds to the
forfeited estate of sir Patrick Hume,
xvi.
Selkirk, Charles, earl of, 295 and «.
Semple, Sara, 117.
Senesino, Francesco Bernard! detto,
394 and «.
Servants, li-lvi ; clothes, Iv, 124, 130-
131, 137-140, 143. 149, "55. 159.
163 ; instructions to servants, 273 ;
diet, 277-278 and n ; directions for
the housekeeper, 278 ; wages, liv,
1 17-120, 122-123, 125-137, 139-140,
144, 160, 418 and n.
Sharp, Peggie, under-cook, 152.
Shaw, sir John, of Greenock, 257
and n.
Sheep, 64, 73, 88, 89, 416.
Shirra, John, 248.
Shrewsbury, duchess of, 293 and n.
Sim, George, 56.
Simmerall, John, 34, 39-42.
Simson, Will, 12.
Sinkolum, music teacher, 14.
Sinclair, Mary, 117.
sir Robert, 29 «.
Singing fees, 420.
Smith, Agnes, in Kelso, 71
John, 3.
Mr., wine merchant in Boulogne,
410.
Snuff, Ix, 104, no, 414; used by
ladies, Ixxii.
handkerchiefs, 209, 211, 350,
353, 363, 364-
mills, 52.
Soap, 72, 74, 414.
Somervill, NicoU, 219.
' Souns and gullits,' xxxix and «.
Spaw water, 25, 78, 99-102, 105.
Spence, Robert, 264.
Spencer, Anne, aflw. duchess of
Hamilton, 295 n.
Spinet tuning, 42, 48, 52.
Spirit lamps, Iviii.
Squadrone volante, xix, xxxv, 284 w.
Stable expenditure, 225-236.
Stage-coaches, xxxix and n, xl ; stage-
coach from Edinburgh to London,
29.
Stair, John Dalrymple, second earl of,
292 and n, 300.
Stanhope, earl of, xxii.
Steal), John, teacher of singing, 15,
16, 25.
Stewart, Gilbert, 92, 107.
Helen, of Allanbank, 296 ;/.
sir James, king's advocate, 220
and n.
col. John, killed in an election
brawl, 29 11.
John, 34, 40, 43.
Stewartfield, 29 and n.
442 HOUSE-BOOK OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
Stitchell. See Pringle, sir John.
Stockton drops, 107.
StrafTord, lady, 40 and «.
Strangeways, Elizabeth, 295 n.
Sugar, 74, 75, 109, III, 414.
Sunderland, Charles Spencer, third
earl of, 287 and «.
Surgeons' fees, jxvi.
Sutherland, John Gordon, sixteenth
earl of, 291 and «.
Swan, Marie, cook, 156.
Swine, 61, 64, 68, 74, 416.
Swords, 4, 5, 9, 196,
Tailoring, 125, 150, 155, 203.
Tarras, lord, 270, 272.
Taylor, George, 121,
Robert, coachman, liv.
Tea, xlv, Iviii, 82, 93, 95, 97, loi,
102, 105, 106, 109, 317, 347,
415.
Thames frozen in 1715-16, 1S5 and n.
Threepwood, 223-225.
Thrift, Sara, housemaid, 156.
Tobacco, Ix, 70, 72, 415.
Tonyn, Pierre Daniel, at the Hague,
,,386.
Torphichen, James, seventh lord,
23 «.
Tradesmen's wages, 419 and n.
Travellers' directions, 386-410.
Treaty of Union, xx-xxi.
Trees, Ixii, 31, 32, 254, 255.
Trent, 400.
Trotter, Dr., 21.
Will, schoolmaster at Mellerstain,
3-
Trumble, George, barnman, 127,
129.
Turkeys, 87, 90.
Turnbull, captain, 60 and ti.
Ann, housekeeper, liv.
Grisell, 53.
Turin, 391.
Turner, Thomas, 224, 239.
Tweeddale, John Hay, fourth marquess
of, 295 and «.
Tyninghame, 55 and w.
Urwin, Adam, 221.
Utrecht, xvi, xli, 405.
Valenciennes, 406.
Vass, 3.
Veitch, William, covenanting minister,
221 «.
Venice, 397-398-
Verona, 399.
Vetch, Will., minister at Peebles,
2.
Vicenza, 399.
Villiers, Mrs., 281 and n; described
by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,
281 w.
Vinegar, 75, 415.
Vint, John, shoemaker, 56.
Virginals, 22, 26.
Vizicater plasters, 15.
Vorie, Christian, wife of George Baillie
of Jerviswood, x and «.
John, in Balbaird, x.
Wabster, jNIargrat, cook, 142.
Wages of tradesmen, etc. See Salaries
and Wages.
W^ait or Wayte, Grisell, 136, 279,
280.
Walker, John, 27, 30.
Nans, 29.
Wall paper, Ixv.
Wallop, John. See Portsmouth, earl
of.
Walpole, sir Robert. See Orford, earl
of.
Walston. See Baillie, John.
Warrender, Helen Catherine, 430.
Wash balls, 114.
Washing, 99, 105, 133, 163, 355-359-
Watch pawned, 267.
Water tax, 42, 47, 58.
Watson, James, tailor, 143.
Wauchope, John, of Edmonstone,
63 «.
Waugh, John, 77.
Wedderburn, James, merchant in
Amsterdam, 386.
Weems, David, 29, 45 and «, 46.
Robert, of Graingemuir, xv, 45 «,
430.
Weights and measures, 421 and «.
West, John, 45 and «.
Westfauns, Ixxviii.
White (Whett), major, escorts Robert
Baillie of Jerviswood to the Tolbooth,
xiii.
Wight, John, 4, ic, 13, 64.
Rob, 142.
Wigs, Ixxii, 206, 207, 215, 261, 367,
,?7?> 377-
Williams, Helen, housemaid, lii, 156.
Willis, Sam, 114.
Wilson of Steapond, 225.
John, 240.
Window tax, 43, 51, 60, no.
Windsor, Thomas, viscount. See
Mountjoy.
Wines, 416. See also under Champagne,
Claret, etc.
Winter, Jamie, carpenter, xvi.
Wirsely, Benjamin, 219.
INDEX
448
Wood, Alexander, carrier, 23, 67, 71,
79-
John, solicitor, Ixvi.
Wray, Cycell, 207, 210.
Wright, John, baker, loi.
YouLL, Andrew, postillion, liv.
Davie, 64.
Youll, Helen, dairymaid, liv.
Henry, 71. 74-
Tarn, coachman, xxxix. Hi, Hii
and w, liv, 15, 17, 29, 68, 132, 133,
136, 146 and ft, 148 and «, 154, 162,
280.
Young, Robert, clerk of court, 6, 7, 11.
Younger's brewery, 415 and «.
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REPORT OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
SCOTTISH HISTORY SOCIETY
The Twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society was
held in DowelFs Rooms, Edinburgh, on the 26th November
1910, — Mr. W. B. Blaikie in the chair.
The Secretary read the Report of the Council as
follows : —
During the past year ten members have died, and ten have
resigned membership.
Dr. John Dowden, Bishop of Edinburgh, Chairman of
Council, was so intimately associated with the daily work
of the Society, and its officials and other workers had so
learned to lean on his help and encouragement, that his death
is felt as the greatest of the great losses which the Society has
sustained in recent years. His work on the Lindores and
Inchaffray volumes, invaluable as it is, represents only a
small fraction of the Society's debt to him.
After filling the vacancies, twenty-four candidates for mem-
bership remain on the list.
Except Craig's De Uiiione, announced in the last Report as
about to appear, no volume has been issued since the last
General Meeting. Warist07i's Diary and Miscellaneous Nar-
ratives relating to the "'45 will it is hoped be sent out early
in 1911, and the other volumes promised for 1909-1910, viz.
Lady Grisell BailUc's Household Books, and Seajiekl Corre-
spondence^ are well advanced at press.
The difficulties which have so seriously delayed the issue of
2
The Scots in Poland will, it is now hoped, be shortly overcome,
and the vohime issued during the coming year.
For 1910-1911 it is intended to issue two of the three
vokimes followino; : —
1. The Book of the Accounts of the Granltars and Chamber-
lains of the Archhishopric of St. Andrews during Cardinal
Beaton's tenure of the See, a.d. 1539 to 1546. Edited by
R. K. Han nay.
2. Letter-booh of Bailie John Stuart, Merchant in Inverness,
1715-1752. Edited by William Mackay.
3. Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, vol. 3. This
will include, among other items, selections from the Wardrobe
Book of Edward i. for tiie 33rd year of his reign (a.d. 1304-05),
from the original in the British Museum, which contains a
great deal of matter relating to Scotland ; a batcli of seven-
teenth-century Haddingtonshire Trials for Witchcraft, edited
by Dr. Wallace James; List of PoUable Persons in St.
Andrews in 1693, edited by Dr. Hay Fleming ; Papers
relating to the "15 and the "45, from the originals at Perth ;
and perhaps Mr. Archibald Constable's long promised trans-
lation of Ferrerius" Histoi'ia Abbatum de Kynlos.
In accordance with the resolution of last year's Meeting, a
general index to the first series of the Society's publications is
m preparation, and will in due time be offered to Members.
There are four vacancies in the Council to be filled up,
caused by the election of Mr. Donald Crawford as Chairman of
Council, and by the retirement in rotation of Sir James Balfour
Paul, Lord Guthrie, and Mr. W. B. Blaikie. It is recom-
mended that Sir J. Balfour Paul and Mr. Blaikie be re-elected,
and that the other vacancies be filled by the appointment
of The Hon. Hew Hamilton Dalrymple and Mr. C. S.
Romanes, C.A.
The Accounts of the Hon. Treasurer, of which an abstract
is appended hereto, show that the balance in the Society's
3
favour on 10th November 1909, was dfi'^TS, Is. Id., the income
for 1909-1910, 1^529, 10s. 9d., the expenditure, ^^329, 15s.
lid., and the credit balance on 10th November 1910, £611,
15s. lid.
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the Report, said : — It
must be a matter of regret to the Society that I should occupy
this place to-day, but our President, Lord Rosebery, who has so
frequently given us illuminating addresses from this chair, is
perforce absent in the act of making history, and has naturally
little time for speaking about history. You have before you the
Annual Report for the current year. The Report is short and
somewhat laconic, but if you examine it you -will find that it
is teeming with interest. We have this year to deplore the death
of him who was Chairman of Council from the time Professor
Masson left us until this year. Bishop Dowden, as you probably
are aware, was the life and the soul of the Council of this Society.
Mr. Law told us in his last speech in 1903 how the inception
of the Society was that of Lord Rosebery, who suggested its
establishment in a letter to the Scotsman nearly twenty-five years
ago, and that his suggestion was first taken up by Bishop Dowden,
Avho became chairman of a committee that carried the prelimi-
naries through. The interest taken by the Bishop in the Society,
and the counsel and assistance he ever gave to those who were
doing historical work, can never be forgotten by those who sought
his aid. He edited for the Society, The Chaiiulari/ of Lindores,
and inspired and assisted in the editing of The Charters of the
Abbey of Inchaffray. Strange to say, like our first Secretary,
Mr. Law, Bishop Dowden was not a Scotsman by birth, but like
Mr. Law he became a Scotsman by adoption and association, and
these two men did as much to further the study of Scottish
history as any Scotsman amongst us.
The Council have elected as their Chairman Sheriff Donald
Crawford, a gentleman who has given much service to the Society
and who has edited one of its most interesting books.
It is the custom of the Chairman at these annual meetings to
give a slight foretaste of the bill of fare which is offered to the
members of the Society. I do not think that at any previous
meeting the Council have been able to offer a more tempting
programme than they have to-day. It is true that only one
book has been issued since our last meeting (Professor Terry's
Translation of Craig's De Unione), but there are no fewer than
five volumes in type awaiting the finishing touches of the various
editors. The volume of The Scots in Poland has been pro-
vokingly and unavoidably delayed by the difficulty of verify-
ing descriptions and getting documents from Warsaw, but the
Council hope that these difficulties will be overcome in the
current year.
The issue of The Diary of Johnston of Warislon will complete the
first series of the Scottish History Society's publications, and the
Council have resolved to prepare a general index of the whole of
the sixty-one volumes comprising that series. This it is hoped will
be issued to members in the course of the year, and it is believed
that it will be a work of the greatest use to students of history.
It is possible that the Council may print a small extra edition
which may be purchased by libraries and collectors who are not
members of the Society, and thus extend the usefulness of the
Society's work.
Of the books promised, the first that may be mentioned is The
Diary of Johnston of Wariston, 1632-34, and again in the moment-
ous years, 1637-39- This book is edited by Mr. George M. Paul,
Deputy Keeper of the Signet, whose sympathetic work on a
Diary of Archibald Johnston, issued in 1896, is well known to
later members. This new instalment, refen-ing, however, to an
earlier period, is of absorbing interest, for it embraces that
crucial period in which Laud's Service Book was imposed upon
the people of Scotland, and the National Covenant (practically
the work of Johnston himself) was prepared and signed. We
have here at first hand this epoch-making event graphically told
by one of the principal actors. The Diary is, however, more than
the mere relation of events ; it shows the mental working
of a strange, nervous, intensely religious Puritan, full of egotism
and introspection, but whose whole soul is filled with a desire
to walk closely with his God, whom he consults and to whom
he gives information on nearly every page of the journal.
There have been few portrayals of the real Covenanter. The
Covenanter of romance must disappear Avhen we read this Diary of
Johnston of fVaristo7i and compare with it the work, edited by
Sheriff Scott Moncrieff twenty-one years ago. The Narrative of
James Nimmo. If the Scottish History Society had done nothing
else than given these introspective memoirs, showing the inward
working of the Covenanter's mind, it would have accomplished
a great work.
The Household Book of Lady Grisell BaiUie is a volume edited
by Mr. R. Scott Moncrieff to be ready shortly. It gives the
daily expenditure of an aristocratic family in the last decade
of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth.
The Correspondence of the first Lord Seafield, edited, from the
originals at Cullen House, by Mr. James Grant of Banff, is another
book of much historical value. Lord Seafield was Chancellor of
Scotland at the time of the Union ; it was he who uttered the
historical obiter dictum, ' This is the end of an auld sang,' when the
last Scottish Parliament accepted the Union.
Then there is a volume of Narratives relating to the '45 with
which I am entrusted. To me at least they are all full of interest.
They belong to that type of article classed as ' fragments which
must not perish,' and the incentive to the collection of these is
the motto engraved on the Society's insignia. Among them is a
portion of a mutilated manuscript of John Murray of Broughton
picked up on the field of Culloden. There is the narrative
of a Captain in Lord Balmerino's Horse, an Englishman, occa-
sionally referred to by historians, but which has never before
been printed. There are several narratives written by ministers
from various parts of the country giving minute local details to be
found nowhere else. There is the apology of the Laird of Grant
for his somewhat ambiguous conduct during the rising. There is
the narrative relating to the capture of Edinburgh and the Battle
of Prestonpans. Jack, its author, was a writing-master in Edin-
burgh, who assisted Professor M'Laurin to prepare the defences of
the city, and who attempted to assist Cope's artillery at the Battle
of Prestonpans. Lastly, it contains a good deal of narrative and
many accounts of secret service performed by Walter Grosset,
Commissioner of the Excise, who was an active agent of the
Government in the '45.
The programme for the following year begins with a volume by
Mr. Hannay on the Accounts of the Granitars and Chamberlains of
the Archbishopric of St. Andrews shortly before the Reformation,
a theme which has been little written of, yet there is no doubt
that it was the inordinate care of the worldly goods of the
great ecclesiastics that exasperated the nobility and commons,
6
and contributed largely to the unanimity of the Reforma-
tion.
Mr. Maitland Thomson is collecting material for a Miscellany
which comprises historical tit-bits ranging over four and a half
centuries. Whether that book will be included in the next year's
issues remains to be seen.
One work I have left to the last and that is the Letter Book of
Bailie John Stuart, to be edited by Mr. William Mackay of Inver-
ness. The Society has hitherto had only one book on com-
mercial affairs, and this volume, giving the details of a Highland
merchant's business in the early eighteenth century, will be of
much historical value. John Stuart, a bailie of Inverness, who
was of the family of Kinchardine in Strathspey, and was related
to several other Highland families, was a merchant in Inverness
from about the year 1700 till 1752, During that period he carried
on an extensive trade, in all kinds of commodities, with Highland
chiefs and Government garrisons in the Highlands, as well as
with Edinburgh, London, and various parts of the Continental sea-
board from Norway and Sweden to Venice. Hugh Miller states
in his Scotch Merchant of the Eighteenth Centia-y that coal had not
found its way into the Cromarty Firth before I7o0, but we find
Bailie Stuart bringing coals from Newcastle thirty years before
this, probably even earlier. He owned about a dozen ships, some
of which were built at Inverness ; the oak timber for these was
brought from Darnaway and Loch Ness side, and part of
the iron and timber frame - work came ready made from
Dantzig. Stuart was factor on the Inverness-shire estates of
the Earl of Moray. His business transactions and ventures, his
successes and misfortunes, are recorded in his letters, which
give a vivid picture of the conditions under which trade
was carried on in the capital of the Highlands during the
first half of the eighteenth century. Among the Bailie's
partners in business was William Duff of Braco, afterwards the
first Earl of Fife ; and his numerous customers and correspond-
ents comprised the Duke of Gordon, the Earls of Moray, Seaforth,
Cromartie, Sutherland, and Caithness, Lord Lovat, Lord Reay,
Lord President Forbes, The Mackintosh, Lochiel, Mackintosh of
Borlum, Glengarry, Stewart of Appin, the Laird of Grant, Sir
Alexander Macdonald of Sleat, MacLeod of MacLeod, General
Wade, Captain Burt, and the Bailie's cousin, the famous Colonel
John Roy Stuart, the Jacobite soldier and poet. One of Stuart's
descendants made his mark in British history, for his grandson
was that Sir John Stuart who beat the French at the battle of
Maida in 1806, the first British general who defeated Napoleon's
veterans on European soil. With this programme before you
I think you will agree that the Council is not neglecting the
interests of the Scottish History Society.
The motion was seconded by Sir James Balfour Paul, and
unanimously agreed to.
ABSTRACT OF THE HON. TREASURER S
ACCOUNTS.
For the Year ending \Oth November 1910.
I. Charge.
I. Balance from previous year —
(1) In Bank on Deposit Receipt, £400 0 0
(2) In Bank on Current Account, 72 1 1
£472 1 1
II. Subscriptions, viz. —
(1) 400 Subscriptions for
1909-1910, . . . £4^20 0 0
8 in arrear for 1 908- 1909, 8 8 0
7 in advance for 1910-1911, 7 7 0
£435 15 0
Less 25 in arrear and 3 in
advance for 1909-1910, 29 8 0
406 7 0
(2) 89 Libraries, . . . £9^ 9 0
1 in arrear for 1 908-1909
and 4 in advance for I9IO-
1911, . . . .550
£98 14 0
Less 1 in arrear for 1909-
1910, . . . .110
97 13 0
III. Copies of previous issues sold to New Members, 10 17 0
IV, Interest on Deposit Receipts, . . . . 14 13 9
Sum of Charge, . . £1001 11 10
II. Discharge.
I. Incidental Expenses —
(1) Printing Cards, Circulars, and
Reports, ... £679
(2) Stationery, and Receipt
Book, 1 17 9
(.S) Making - up and delivering
Publications, . . . 12 15 5
(4) Postages of Secretaries and
Treasurer, . . . . 4 3 0
(5) Clei'ical Work and Charges on
Cheques, . . . . 2 11 0
(6) Hire of rooms for Annual
Meeting and Advertising, 118 0
II. De Unione Regnorum Bntannice —
Composition, Printing, and Paper
540 Copies, . . . £115 10 6"
Proofs and Corrections, . . 56 \S 6
Binding Stamp, . . 110
Binding 540 Copies at 8d., . 18 0 0
Photogravure Portrait of Prof
Masson, . . . . 6 l6 6
£198 1 6
Less paid to account October
1909, 145 6 0
III. The Scots in Poland. Expense to date —
Composition, .... £72 1 0
Corrections, . . 19 18 0
Engraving Map, . 5 5 0
£29 12 11
52 15 6
Carry forward, £97 4 0 £82 8 5
10
Brought forward, £97 4 0 £82 8 5
Less paid to account,
October 1908, £77 17 0
Less paid to account,
October 1909, 12 5 0
90 2 0
7 2 0
IV^. Miscellaneous Narratives relating to the '45.
Expense to date —
Composition, . . . . . . 39 12 6
V. Household Books of Lady Grisell Baillie.
Expense to date —
Composition, .... £53 6 0
Corrections, . . . . 10 11 0
VL Correspondence of James, Fourth Earl of
Findlater. Expense to date —
Composition, .... £27 4 0
Corrections, . . . . 14 3 0
VII. Diari/ of Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston.
Expense to date —
Composition, .... £58 14 0
Alterations, . . . . 32 14 6
Transcribing, . . . . 72 15 0
£l64 3 6
Less paid to account,
October 1908, £3 18 0
Less paid to accou 
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